Growing up with a big brother and four younger sisters was wonderful.   One thing that my parents did with us was to take us camping.  NOT in the middle of the woods but on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan.  Water, waves, sun, sand, Dunes and at the beginning of the little walkway out to the lake from the camp parking lot, a little store.  By sweeping this walkway from the petit store to the opening where the walk opened down to the beach I could earn my own money for a fudgesicle. There was a coke~ a~ cola machine but I was more interested in frozen chocolate.  Oh, and being noticed by the older boys!   There were also trees on top of the dunes on each side of the walk and our camping area.  Trees with VINES (Tarzan like vines) hanging down!  Once, my brother and his friends decided to grab on to a vine and went sailing out just over head of our tent,  softly landing on the sand.  Of course there was heard the mandatory Tarzan yell (we all liked to watch the old Tarzan movies).
Our tent was much larger than the petit one in my 1"x1" square.  but you get the idea of what fun camping can be for kids... now mom's... they do sacrifice for their children in this:)

#19  Camping :)


Caitlin sent me a link to an interesting vacation site... look what YOU could "camp out" in! 
Remind you of anything????  hehehehe

Hugs,

Mary