Camping in Tobermory...day 1

We decided to go camping in Tobermory for a few days with all the kids. We went to Cyprus Lake like always.

A few months ago we bought a new tent at Sam's Club for under $100...it's a ten man tent with two rooms...simply put, it's huge!!

The drive to Cyprus Lake was horrible...there was construction and stop and go traffic pretty much the whole way. Poor Sydney wasn't able to sleep like that either and since it was her nap time, I was quite worried about what was to come later that night.

We got to the campsite at around 4:30pm and Ryan started to set up the tent (we'd never even opened it before). We couldn't for the life of us find the instructions of how to put it together, then finally Ryan noticed that they were actually sewn to the inside of the tent's carry bag (what a great idea...you'll never loose them like that.)

All the kids got in on helping too...it was really cute!

This is the first time in 8 years that we actually brought a tarp to put over the tent. It's huge too...18'x24'...and boy were we glad that we had it with us. Tuesday overnight it poured like crazy...if the tent hadn't been covered by the tarp, we would have been soaked!!

This is the inside of the tent to show how big and tall it is.




This is the tent with the tarp over it...do you like our wonderful tying job??

We made a fire and had some hamburgers. This was the first time that Sydney had ever seen a campfire and she was just fascinated with it. She even ate one of the hamburger patties that Ryan made.

"Dad, GIVE ME THAT BURGER!!!!"

After the tent was set up and the campfire was out, we went to a show at the amphitheater about snakes. The ranger, Sean, told us all about Massassauga Rattle Snakes...the only venomous snake in Ontario and they happen to live in the Bruce Peninsula. It was really interesting and the boys learned a lot (all of which they repeated to us on Wednesday during our hike). At the end of the program, we even got to see a real live rattler...Fluffy!!

After that it was back to the campsite and off to bed for everyone....

(To be continued...)