Family camping trip

Russ has been doing some trainings on 72 hour kits.  So, we have been working on our packs.  It's such a good thing to have ready to go at any minute.  He came up with a good idea a couple of weeks ago, that we should take our 72 hour packs and go camping over night.  We were pretty confident we would do fine.  Of course the kids were so excited for it.  So, Friday night we packed up and went down Pinedale road.  It was literally like maybe 12 miles from home.  Set up camp and ate a little bit.  We mostly ate oatmeal and Top Roman.  Not too bad for one day.  Russ took his hammock and Ninna and I slept in the tent with all the kids.  I have to say, I have not slept in a tent inside a sleeping bag in a very long time.  We have always had some kind of camp trailer.  I got a little claustrophobic for the first half of the night.  Before bed Riley got a little worried about weird noises and strange animals that might come into camp with us.  We assured him all would be fine.  So after NOT sleeping, at around 2 AM we heard a pack of coyotes howling VERY loud.  They were right in our camp, well very close to us.  We all shot up in bed.  Russ said we were fine but he got up and made a fire because honestly all the adults were cold.  All of us minus Reese who was pretty out, joined Russ by the fire.

The next morning Russ took the kids on a little hike.  All of the kids did so well.  They all got along and played nice.  It was a really good experience.  We kind of got a feel for what we might need and what we could live with out if we ever had to live off our 72 hour kits.  I'm glad we went and we are all looking forward to doing it again.