Here we come camping!

Our camping site at Algonquin Park has been booked as of yesterday and I am SO excited! You probably are wondering why on earth would you book 6 months in advance for your camping trip for those that don't know Algonquin Park has different lakes that you can camp around and  they are VERY popular with a lot of people which makes getting camps sites really hard so we book ahead of time to make sure we have one. I mean we go on hiking trails there and they have these books at the beginning of each trail where you can sign the date, your name and where you are from and I always see people as far away as Spain, Ukraine, China and even Australia there camping over the summer! So its a popular place to go to. We love it! Dustin has been camping there with his brothers, sister and father since he was really young and now we do. I didn't have the luxory while growing up to go camping, but I always used this old red tent my mom had stored in the basement to go "camping" with it on our front lawn over the summer. That was my way of getting the experience without having to go anywhere. It worked and I loved it when I was little. When I met Dustin I think the first year of us dating we went camping together twice and have gone every year ever since. I guess you can say its a tradition of ours now and we plan to pass it on to our son and any future children we have. I just hope they enjoy and love it just as much as we do.
So I am really looking forward to this year, because it will be Dagney's first camping trip ever, well if you want to get technical its his second, because I went camping when I was 34.5 weeks pregnant with him. But first one he can actually interact with us and do things. Maybe not completely do things because he will only be 11 months, but at least we can tell him when he was older that he has been camping since he was a baby.

Anyways, so that is one major thing for our family that we are looking forward to sharing with our son. We don't have religious celebrations like other families, because well we are atheists and don't believe in God(s) or Jesus and all that stuff around it. So we make our own traditions/celebrations to enjoy and camping is one of them. :)