We went to St. Malo Prov. park which is about an hours drive South of Winnipeg. Sarah was in 7th heaven because it had a great 'slide' (her word for a playground). She loved the circle slide and she's now quite proficient on the 'big girl' swing but she can't go as high in it as she can in a 'little girl' swing.
Setting up the tent was a novel experience for her. She loved it!
While Sarah waited for dinner to be ready she climbed into her booster seat and ate (and played with) some beans and peas from our garden.
Sausages are always great camping food especially when they're done over a fire.
Our campsite was full of gravel - great for Sarah to play with but not so great when you're sleeping. We took the 4 person tent that my cousin Dave and his wife Claire gave us but all that meant was that Sarah had more room to roll off of her camping mat...and onto the gravel which she didn't think much of!
We decided to go to bed around 8:30 - an hour after her bed time. We should have waited until it was dark. It took 2 hours to convince her to go to sleep! She got stuck in a loop of moving her stuffed animals from the head of her bed to the foot...Dale had to finally step in and stop it because she was starting to get frantic! I put a bag at the head of her bed to stop her from rolling onto the gravel and we just waited her out. She was up at oh-dark-stupid the next morning (ok - first light) and I took her to the 'slide' while Dale packed up the campsite. Not a huge success, but not bad either.
Sarah's not really all that fussed about veggies these days. She'd rather fill up on fruit - raspies (raspberries) and straws (strawberries) from our garden, grapes (she calls them gapes), booberries (blueberries) - you name it, as long as it's fruit, she loves it. The only way we can get her to eat a decent amount of veggies is to give her a carrot pulled straight from the garden and washed off with the garden hose.
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