Sherwood Forest- Part 3

We came back to our camp site for afternoon naps which we all took. Then we explored the camp site.

Started our fire for hotdogs and smores. They have really stricked rules here about fires. Check out this lighter fluid that was a gel! See the white stuff.

Eating some hummy hotdogs- just for you mom!

Ben enjoying the goodness of smores

Me enjoying the yumminess of smores, mine was a little bit of a mess and Allen enjoyed every minute of my mess!

Then Allen and I cleaned up from dinner and the boys went on a walk to the ducks with Daniel and Lauren

Ben trying to escape to the playground....

Sherwood Forest- Part 2

As a mother of two little children I have decided that I don't go away for the rest but for the memories. However, the boys did do better than I expected them to do in the tent Friday night. The great thing about this tent is that it is big enough to have fit a pack and play into one of the smaller compartments. We thought that we would give it a try and see if the boys would sleep in the pack and play together...it worked for a little bit but about 1, Nate woke up and did not like being that close to Ben. So, we pulled Nate out for a while but decided that it would be best to put Nate in the pack and play and have Ben sleep on a mate next to us. That worked and we all slept off and on the rest of the night. Here we are Saturday morning in our "room". It rained all Friday night but thankfully did not rain the rest of the weekend!

Heating up water for our coffee and oatmeal.

We visited Sherwood Forest Saturday morning. Nate was out for most of it. Again, let me just tell you how awesome a Phil and Teds is!

Buffing up on all the Robin Hood movies out there.

The sweet couple that lived through two nights in a tent with our little guys. Pretty sure they went home and crashed! I have to just say, that Daniel and Lauren are pretty awesome to travel with. As a parent you know there are people who just see how they can help and do it without having to ask if it they should or can help. It is pretty great how they just enjoy serving and loving our boys! And I am in mourning about them leaving next month.

We all thought we would try our hand at the long bow.

Sherwood Forest Part 1

We went camping with Daniel and Lauren this past weekend in Sherwood Forest. We originally were going to take our two person tent for all four of us and Daniel and Lauren would have their tent. Well, after thinking about it and talking about it we decided to buy a tent. Camping is very popular here and people have huge tents! We realized why this past weekend. At some point during the weekend it is going to rain and you are going to spend time in your tent. So, we bought a tent called "The Buckingham 6". It is a large tent with 3 inner smaller compartments for 2 people each.

Traffic in England is crazy and I have just come to realize that if you plan on traveling on this Island you are going to sit in traffic. So, we didn't get to Sherwood Forest until almost 8. Fortunately, the sun does not go down till 10 here right now. And of course it was raining when we arrived!

Lauren stayed in the car and entertained Ben and Nate while the guys set up the tent and I took pictures.

Ben exploring the van.

Here she is! The Buckinham 6. You set up this outer shell (rain fly) and then set up the smaller compartments inside.

The Golden Arches

This weekend we went camping in Sherwood Forest! How cool does that sound? Anyways, we have not had McDonalds since we left the states and we thought it would be a fun, festive way to start the weekend off. Nate had his first McDonalds this weekend! Here Ben is offering him a fry with ketchup because the one he had was just plain.