For a day and half we decided to throw our schedule: bedtime/bath routine, methodical dinnertimes, chores and must do's out the window and head out a on a brief but event filled campout.
Found a beautiful spot by the river. Collected pinecones and acorns and firewood and marched around like Indians, roast toasted gooey marshmallows and made the newly invented Double Chocolate S'more (we Behnkes just skip the graham cracker and sandwich the mallow between two slabs of chocolate) yum!
The night was nothing less than freezing cold (bone chillingly so; our mattress deflated midway through, somehow we had brought a lightweight tent so the not so summer wind was blowing through the entire night. Needless to say with Will and I in one tent and Tim and Nat and Adam in the other, someone was always awake.
But then came that morning stillness with it's calm and smoky campfire smell and crackling and crisp coldness that makes you feel alive. And then it was time for a kayak ride or two before heading back home.
Definitely cold. Definitely exhausting. Completely worth it. Completely worth doing again.
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