Camping Day 2

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

We lucked out, it did not rain the first night.  We put all of our tents together under the trees. (our tent is the one on the right.) 

On Day 2 & 3 my husband cooked breakfast over the fire.  Did I say, he ROCKS?!?!  He was a cooking machine.  (He also went to Dunkin Donuts for coffee.)

While the kids sat and waited, patiently...(yes, we let them play their ds...please remember we all didn't get much sleep & it was really early...)

After breakfast, we got ready and went to the Corning Museum of Glass.  Thankfully, because as soon as we were ready to leave it started to rain. 

These pumpkins were in the back of the pick-up truck I photographed here. 

They were beautiful!  I bought myself a small one.

There was so much to see and do at the museum.  We watched a couple shows...

and played with the interactive exhibits...

Sharon & I made our own ornaments.  We are so much alike we picked almost the same colors for our ornaments.  Mine is purple with with light purple & small white dots.  Her's is purple with light pinky purple & larger white dots.  The shot of the ornament close up in the collage is Sharon's.

Lastly we walked through the museum portion.  The museum has a scavenger hunt for the children to do while doing through it.  The older 2 kids were very competitive.

To keep it real on Day 2...

Each one of us...yep all 10...had a melt down of some sort at one point in the day.  We each took our turn in hitting that wall of exhaustion and crabbiness.  When I felt myself loosing it that day I went by myself to have some "mommy time" down the escalator into the gift shop to take photos of the pumpkins and truck.  I am very glad that I did that because I got a couple good shots.

Looking back, I have realized that if we can take 6 kids into a GLASS museum & gift shop and nothing got broken, we can do ANYTHING!

The second night we ate the rest of the fried chicken and made tacos in a bag for dinner.  It was very yummy!  Everyone slept so much better that night.  It was a bit colder, but we were warm enough with all of our sleeping bags and layers of clothes.

Also, I need to mention...
I took a shower every morning.  The showers were not as bad as I thought they would be.  The water pressure and temperature were actually pretty good.

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