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This weekend we went camping. If you want pics you should check out Melynda’s Blog. She may or may not have time to post them in the next couple of weeks.

Saturday was a pretty good day, dawning clear and cool. We packed up the kids and headed over to Ennis to see Mummo(sp?). Anders wandered around and played in the dirt pile while Finn and the rest of us played in the Big House. Finn even deigned to let Mummo hold him without crying. In fact, he kinda enjoyed it. This is new for him. Usually, its mommy or nothin’.

After a bountiful lunch prepared by Mummo, we spied the rain clouds moving in to our south. We spit in the face of rain and headed south anyway to Cliff and Wade lakes.

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None of us had been there before and it was a really nice surprise. These two relatively large lakes nestled into the hills. As we arrived it started to rain, not unexpectedly. Finn was still asleep and Anders was itching to get out, until he got out and realized how many mosquitoes there were.

This, we had not counted on. What we had counted on was using Melynda’s new tent that she got from Kelty[Basecamp Green River 6]. This thing was meant for this kind of car camping and is pretty heavy. I began to set it up while she got Finn ready for rain and made sure the dogs didn’t run off to steal picnic baskets. I pulled out a huge piece of material and assumed it was the tent only to realize it was the fly (actually I think Melynda pointed it out.) We took out the huge poles and got the tent up despite spitting rain and hungry mosquitoes. When it was finally up and we could step inside, it was shock to be able to stand up inside without touching my head. This thing is bigger than my truck. Seriously. Its immense. The kids loved it because they could run around inside and jump onto the sleeping bags. That’s why we loved it too. It also had a techy venting system and a vestibule big enough for a small tea party (not the political kind).

To spare you the math, that’s 9ft by 13.5ft or 121 sqr feet. That is bigger than my office.

The next day we took a two mile hike trying to outrun mosquitoes and keep Rigby out of campsites. [in his defense, these sites were not bear safe] Poor Diesel still has a bare patch on his rump from surgery and got pretty chewed up. He had a stick so he was happy though. Then we came home stopping at the Grizzly Discovery center in W. Yellowstone and drive through the park in which Anders talked the whole way. All in all a pretty good weekend. Hope yours was too.