Camp Felicity

For Felicity's birthday camping trip, we went to the Los Padres National Forest, which is a place I spent a lot of time at as a kid.  Its one of my favorite places and it was so fun to take the kids there.

There was some flashlight play....

....learning how to start the camp fire...

....learning how to BBQ...

...a visit from a wonderful High School friend whom I hadn't seen for FIVE years....

...some typical boy play...

.....and some treasure collecting.

There was also an AMAZING thunder and lightning storm to awaken to one morning.  And coffee to brew under the canvas eave of the tent to help start the day REGARDLESS of the storm.

And there was rain to watch from our tent door, in our PJ's.

And of course, there was LOTS of play in the creek.

The kids even got to watch a pet duck swim around in the creek.  Her owners had brought her camping.  Yes, their duck.  The lady said she flew around their camp site but always returned.  She swam all over the creek with her owners and the kids loved watching her.  And sure enough, the owners had no problem getting her back to their campsite because the next day, on a walk, we saw the duck in her camp.

And thus ends Felicity's fourth birthday.

"Mama, when it my birthday again?"

"12 months honey."

"12 MONTHS!?   **sigh**"