Isaac's first camping trip
May 3, 2013.
Isaac was approaching one and a half years old. We had decided it was time to take him camping.
Since this was obviously our first time camping with a kid, we decided to go for a nearby provincial park. If everything went to hell, we could abort and get home in an hour or so.
Based on the timestamps of the pictures, it looks like I took that Friday off work. I believe Hillary was working compressed hours at that point, so it was probably her day off.
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We went to Golden Ears and stayed at the Gold Creek Campground. We went on a short hike, Isaac threw rocks in the water, ate dinner, got tired and then spent the evening cuddled up with Hillary.
Also, he had a pretty bad cold. Poor little guy.
There wasn't much else to say. It was fairly uneventful other than him snoring a fair bit due to being stuffed up. He cuddled between us in the tent and woke both of us up a bunch of times. Isaac wiggled a lot while he was sleeping.
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I would make a point of getting Isaac out camping every year after that. I only missed 2018 due to the last minute trip to Ontario. I had been planning on taking him the weekend we left.
Paige's first camping trip would be in September of 2015.
I think I generally got one or two camping trips solo with the kids each year after that.
Hillary would come if we were doing a multi day trip. She camped less after the kids were born. While she enjoyed it, it was a lot of work and there were aspects that she was definitely done with.
I suspect that had life not gone where it had, we might have picked up a small trailer at some point in the next few years. We talked about it a fair bit and I think that would have increased Hillary's comfort level substantially. Not to mention made a bunch of things far easier.
But who knows. It didn't happen and here we are.