Indoor Campout

It's President's Weekend, a three day weekend, and nothing is planned...we couldn't treat is as just another weekend but we really didn't want to go anywhere.  We had considered driving to the mountains to see what little snow was there but then rain was forecast (not snow, rain...no thank you.)  So after some thought, we settled on a campout

...in our living room.

 Two tents were set up. 

We did some fishing. 

And then as the sun set, we had hot dogs and beans

by candlelight and lantern. 

We read stories...may I recommend recent Caldecott Winner Blackout, a perfect story for a candelit evening...

And then we told stories...Jason told us a story based on something he recently read about a trip into outer space where some kids smuggled appleseeds and then grew trees so they would have fresh apples.  Very fun! 

We finished the evening with S'mores. 

Yummy, yum, yum!

Good night...

And then the next day we watched a movie from inside a tent...a very relaxing President's Day :)