We went camping as a family over conference weekend. We had a great time except for 1 thing.
There were HUNDREDS of large orb spiders all over the campground.
We were keeping our distance and trying to ignore them for the most part (not easy for an arachnaphobe) and as soon as dusk started coming on they whole camp ground came alive with them, it was really scary and kind of beautiful.
We stood up from our campfire dinner and counted how many we could see from where we were eating. 42. All visible just from where we were standing.
As soon as dinner was done we went inside the tent and stayed away from the 8-legged campers.
When we got ready for bed we had to make our way to the bathroom so we stood in a line, each person holding onto the shirt of the one in front and Dad leading the way with a big stick to hit the spiders out of the way. We did get some decent pictures, both of the camping trip and of the spiders. So here they are.
Nighttime pics of the creepy-crawlies. I don't know how well you can tell but they were quite large. Each had a body as big as a quarter and when the legs are moving...I get the creeblies even thinking about them. I do not know how I managed to sleep that night.
Belle chose Fancy Nancy, who dresses up in jewelry and hairbows and fancy shoes and fancy clothes all the time. Thanks so much to Grandma for the tu-tu. It looks great. This was the prep to get her ready. Rag curlers, ahh...the memories.
Jack chose Jack from the Magic Treehouse, his favorite series, mostly because of the name thing. Not much work for this costume. He wears solid colored t-shirts or hoodies, jeans, tennis shoes, and a back-pack. Oh, and glasses which is the only thing we had to buy for him. Thank you, end of summer sunglass clearance :-)
