Christopher Creek

Well, we survived camping in the great outdoors! We had a great few days escaping the heat of Phoenix. Christopher Creek is a beautiful campground and we are even talking about camping more regularly!



We headed out on Sunday morning. The girls thought it would be really cool to live like the pioneers did. Yeah, the back of my car looks like we were living pioneer style. Complete with stoves and air mattresses! It is always amazing to me how much stuff is required for a good camping trip. The weather was perfectly perfect at 84 degrees. Heavenly! And it was so good to be back with the pine trees. First things first, Nate sent the girls out to collect fire wood from the other campsites. They kept coming back with little sticks. Is this enough? How about this? After the first night, they realized how much wood we needed!

It worked out really nice leaving on a Sunday, everyone else was going home! So we had an empty campground and all the firewood we could want:)




My girls are closet pyromaniacs. They can spend hours playing around a fire, "cooking" bark and pine needles, making soup with water or just burning sticks. The uptight part of me could only take so much, so I eventually had to go to the tent so I wouldn't worry about them burning each other or themselves. I try not to be a smothering mom, so sometimes I just have to leave!

Nate made a fab dinner that night. He grilled up some steaks, made rice and threw some corn on the cob on the fire! Yummy! Guess what the hit of the night was?Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm:)













The next day we headed over to the trout fish hatchery. Not very exciting, right? But it was actually pretty cool! They have all these tanks there with the fish in different parts of the growth cycle. We were able to see them get fed. These fish are maniacs!
It's always fun to see something new. That afternoon we played at the Christopher Creek. See how peaceful? The ranger told us that the week before a monsoon had hit and the water raised 8 feet in 20 minutes. Scary! Luckily we didn't need to experience that. The water felt good on our toes. I was taking advice from my photography class, trying to get down to different angles when I accidentally dipped my buns in the water. Brrr!


We had fun nights of smores and marshmallows. Stories from Nate's childhood around the fire. Bocce ball and Horseshoes. Water and fire play. A late night visit from a skunk. (I'll let Nate tell that story.) Best of all...great memories! I can't wait to do it again!
Finally, I had to take a picture of this. For the life of me, I can't figure out why they put a cow on top of this sign. There aren't any meat stores, or a farm anywhere around. Just the "club". I thought it was too funny.