First camping trip

We pulled out of town and headed up to New Harmony. We wanted to go somewhere close, but new, just to try out the new trailer before the big 24th camping trip. We didn't have much luck finding a spot in New Harmony, and actually got a little stuck. Thankfully, a man and his wife came up behind us and helped us out. We would have been stuck in the middle of the road all night if they hadn't shown up.

After that adventure, we decided to drive up the freeway a little bit to Bumblebee. We grabbed the first spot we came to and set up camp. Only about 30 minutes after parking Cutler spotted this rattlesnake all curled up under a rock at the fire pit.

Immediately the boys were in [Kill mode].

 Everyone took a turn throwing rocks at it. Lexie even got in on that part.

And they got it. Thankfully. The whole rest of the night and next day Cutler and Noah kept 'hearing' rattling sounds. They were sure there were more snakes to be killed.

If there's one thing Colby hates, it's snakes. He was probably the happiest to get rid of it.



Then the boys had to take a turn touching it.

After the snake incident, we went on a razor ride and called it a night. Or at least tried. We put Lexie and Cutler in the same bed and they talked for almost an hour.

It was brutal.

Saturday we got up and went for another ride. Stopped to shoot some things.

Squirrels, cans, butterflies, flowers, whatever we could find.

And we relaxed.

A little.