Hansen Family: Camping at Lake Liberty!!!

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Camping at Lake Liberty!!!

Campin' time! My friend James Stuart called last minute to see if we wanted to go camping with them. Luckily we keep our camping stuff ready to go. We threw it in the civic and drove 20 minutes to Lake Liberty. We got there as the sun was going down. I hurried and set up the tent with a tiny bit of help from Jake. There were 3 VW buses there, but they let me camp with them anyway :) The kids were off in a torrent of tag, soccer, collecting shells (the lake was WAY down due to the drought) and other mischief. An attempt at fishing was made until the kids collectively decided throwing rocks in the lake would be more fun. We couldn't have a fire due to the burn ban but still cooked some hot dogs on the camp stove. Jake was the oldest and made an attempt to organize the youngsters in a game of capture the flag. We had excitement when a group of teenagers came and camped a bit too close to us. One guy in our party was annoyed and called the cops on them. Must have been a slow night because 4 cars rolled up like it was SWAT on a serious bust. I'm not sure what went down but the kids left. We also got to listen to some rednecks blare music at 3am and we were lucky enough to hear the rustic sounds of the train go by every so often. I slept under the stars, even though we're in a drought, it sprinkled on me off and on. I had a CE course to get to so we woke up @ 6:30-ish, packed up camp and ran home. It was a whirlwind but was fun!