Here's Liam making a morning appearance. Still chilly in the morning, but he insists on wearing his new blue fleece vest (also an impromptu REI purchase).
Our little professor.
Bummed that I didn't take too many photos of the rigs at the Overland Expo. It was super, super muddy from the previous day's rain, so I was more concerned about keeping the kids out of the mud. So here are a few shots.. Liam loved this flame decorated truck.
Emilia was in one of my favorite rig setups. It was a long trailer that had side pop out windows into a u-shaped seating area and middle table.. enough to fit 6 people on it. The seating area converted into a queen size bed, and on top of that area was another shelf setup that fit another queen size sleeping area.
My second favorite setup was the Four Wheel side-door pop up camper.
I like this simple flatbed, beefy monster tire truck too.
We always see LandRover at the car shows/expos displaying an off-road track for people to test drive the LandRovers through a fun obstacle course. This time around, we went to sign up for a test drive, only to find out that the rain and mud stopped the course. Apparently some of these giant behemoth overland vehicles were trying out the course and got stuck. Made for some fun spectating for us.
Of course, it was the little LandRover that saved the day and assisted in pulling out the stuck rigs from the mud pits.
Hanging out at the Mormon Lake Lodge before heading back to camp..
Them sillies!
We got back to the campsite with plenty of daylight left, so Diane took us on two fun geocaching hikes. The kiddies loved the idea of stomping through the forest, looking for hidden treasures.
Found the location, now the kiddies have to find the geocache.
Yes! It's in the trunk of the tree! Kiddies were super happy to find treasure. Liam got a blue car and Emilia picked out a star ring. They put the cache back into the tree for the next explorers to find.
We went a searching for the second geocache location...
We were fortunate to have Bill & Diane with us for camping. They got a campfire going which made for fun times to cook and hang out at the campsite.
We kept it simple, hot dogs and canned beans. Not Paleo, but hey, easy and minimal mess. Kiddies loved it.
(To Be Continued...)
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