#10 Cook over a campfire AND #17 Camp out in the backyard

We did both of these on the same night, so I will put them in the same post.

#10  Cook over a campfire

 You may be wondering what vegetarians cook over a campfire.  The answer (for us, anyway) is HOTDOGS!  Veggie dogs to be exact.  Our kids love them and they are easy to cook.   We camped out on the 5th of July, so we had 4th of July S'mores too.

#17 Camp out in the backyard 

When I was a kid, my parents had a Volkswagon camper.  While we never camped out in our yard, we rarely stayed in hotels while traveling, we stayed in KOA campgrounds.  I remember campfires, and S'mores, and hotdogs, and flashlights, and ghost stories.  If it was a really good KOA, there was swimming and a playground.  This was family camping in the 70's and 80's.

What's changed?  Well, portable technology, that's what.  The camera we had out to take pictures for this blog prompted an unprecedented (in our family, anyway)  family selfie session.  With Lennon as the main photographer and director.  He has a fondness for "duck face" selfie's as you will see for yourself in a moment.

Before you begin lamenting about what the world is coming to, I must admit that I haven't had that much fun or laughed that hard in a long time.  Who knew taking ridiculous, embarrassing photos of yourself and your family could be so much fun?  We had at least as much fun as I did as a kid in the KOA campgrounds.

You know what's not so much fun?  The next morning, around 5 a.m., discovering that our neighborhood has not one, not two, but MANY roosters who feel it is their duty to wake me up with their incessant crowing.  It was maddening!  I hate to admit it, but for a few minutes I seriously considered giving up vegetarianism, stoking up our campfire, and going rooster hunting.  Instead, I went inside and started the coffee-maker.