Howl-O-Ween Camping

This weekend was the one camping trip that Zoe waits on all year. For two weekends in October our favorite campground turns into a ‘Haunted Forrest’. This year was a little different than past years since we didn’t have our camper. We sold the camper this summer in hopes to buy one a little bigger but with the new house, we just didn’t get around to it this year. Instead, we bought a huge tent. All I can say is tent camping is not my favorite way to camp; I very much missed the camper. I got so used to playing board games on the kitchen table, IN THE CAMPER, coloring with Zoe, doing crafts after the sun went down, & just having a door to close. Either way, we made the best of it by decorating our campsite and enjoyed all the festivities they had to offer.

We always have fun walking around to all the different campsites trick or treating. Everyone decorates and it’s neat to see what everyone has done. We dressed the dogs up and took them trick or treating with us, they even scored some treats too! Zoe was a “Pirate Princess” for the camping weekend but she is saving her special costume for Halloween night – It’s a surprise! 

Last year, Zoe and I signed up for the haunted trail walk and she loved it, or course screaming and laughing the entire way.  This year she asked Shelli to sigh her up again, and we were all set to go… Well, for whatever reason this year when it came time for her to go, she wanted NO part of it. She said it sounded too scary and she did not want to go. I couldn’t believe it! This is something she talked about all year and the time was finally here and she refused to go.  So we sat at our campsite around the fire and listened to screams and chainsaws and more screams, until around 10pm.

Last year wasn’t as cold as it was this year, it was around 45 degrees after the sun went down but the wind was whipping!  In the tent it was a little warmer but it was still chilly.  We had a heater but it hardly felt like it was on. The wind was blowing so hard we didn’t even sit in front of the fire pit for long. We spent the evenings in the tent staying warm reading and cuddling with the dogs.

It’s always fun to get away from everything for a weekend. Shelli was out of town last week for work and will be leaving again soon so any time we can just get away and have family time is priceless!