Indoor camping

Anyone who knows me knows that camping is not my thing.  I like the outdoors.  I like the moon and the stars.  But... bugs? And intense heat?  And wild animals?  And sleeping on a hard uncomfortable surface?  Not so much.

Jonathan likes to camp, so we have the equipment.  But last week it was over 100 degrees here, so... yeah, not going outside.

However... we don't want to deprive our kids of summer camping.

So we put up the tent in our dining room.

And made s'mores in the fireplace.  (Ari wanted "cold s'mores" because he was afraid of the fire.)

And we slept in the tent.  

They were SO EXCITED I can't even begin to describe it.

Ari bringing his loveys into the tent.

Yay for indoor camping!  Even more adorable was Ari's concern over Connor joining us:  "Don't let him drool on tent!  If he gets tent wet, we have [to] clean it up!" 

In case you didn't get that "I'm excited" vibe. Poor Ari decided halfway through the evening though that he wanted to go back to bed with his regular night-time "sleepy music" CD and his normal blanket, not the sleeping bag, so in the end it was just with 2 out of 3 kids.

Jonathan took a picture of us sleepyheads in the morning.  He and Ari were already at breakfast.