Our homegroup tries to go camping about twice a year, which is quite a feat if you figure our group has grown to 27!! We started out as six couples, only one of us having a kid at the time, and now there are 12 adults and 15 kids! We're outnumbered by children! We always have a great time and I love that the kids have a chance to hang out, play and get to know each other. Usually when we're getting together, it is bedtime for the kids and they don't get much time to hang out. Anyway, we had decided to go camping at Anastasia State Park which is one of my favorite campgrounds. Steve and I have been camping there since before we were married. It is so beautiful and right on the beach which is perfect! And St Augustine is such a neat town with so much history. The kids and I arrived Friday night at about 9 or 10pm (Steve had an early morning meeting in Apopka and had to join us later on Saturday). The husbands helped me get the tent up and we were settled in for the night. Saturday, we went to the beach and just enjoyed being lazy in the sand.
The kids played for hours and the breeze was so nice and cool. We went back to the campsite to get cleaned up and Steve arrived shortly after. We went for a hike on an ancient sea dune trail which was really cool and tons of fun for the kids with all the ups and downs.
Then while the parents got dinner ready, the kids had a paper airplane throwing contest.
After dinner we made smores (of course) and put the kids to bed.
It took about 5 minutes for our two to fall asleep. They had a busy and exhausting day in the sun.
The adults hung out around the campfire and invented a new campfire sport: Tossing marshmallows into a giant boiling can of baked beans in the campfire.. not as easy as it sounds and the girls creamed the guys! Steve and I got to take a walk on the beach at night too which was nice. On Sunday morning we drove into St Augustine and visited the fort, Castillo de San Marcos. Steve loves that kind of stuff and could have spend hours reading every little word on all the signs, but our kids weren't up for that. So we did the quick tour and even got to see the canon firing drill.. really cool!
After lunch with the Cline's, we were pretty sure we had worn our entire family out so we headed home and went straight to bed for a long nap!
Our homegroup tries to go camping about twice a year, which is quite a feat if you figure our group has grown to 27!! We started out as six couples, only one of us having a kid at the time, and now there are 12 adults and 15 kids! We're outnumbered by children! We always have a great time and I love that the kids have a chance to hang out, play and get to know each other. Usually when we're getting together, it is bedtime for the kids and they don't get much time to hang out. Anyway, we had decided to go camping at Anastasia State Park which is one of my favorite campgrounds. Steve and I have been camping there since before we were married. It is so beautiful and right on the beach which is perfect! And St Augustine is such a neat town with so much history. The kids and I arrived Friday night at about 9 or 10pm (Steve had an early morning meeting in Apopka and had to join us later on Saturday). The husbands helped me get the tent up and we were settled in for the night. Saturday, we went to the beach and just enjoyed being lazy in the sand. 
St. Augustine is the best! It is one of Jason and my favorite places on Earth. And we have stayed at Anastasia twice! But weren't you HOT? It was so HOT this past weekend. You are very, very brave... ! Glad you guys had fun!
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