Camping!

It started with a new tent in the living room.

Wow, that's big!

We packed our little car up to the roof...

And ended with another trip to our new favorite park, Brazos Bend.

This time, we brought some of our favorite people to join us!

And it was a perfect, sunny day so we had lots of alligator sightings.

Everything is an adventure when you are a kid.

Family!

Friends!

We climbed the watchtower again.

And spotted a gator from the top.

This one is #10.

 14 alligator sightings on the first walk!

A quick drive to the nature center at the park.

And we got to attend a class on owls.

They even got to see a demonstration of examining an owl pellet...Isaac now has big plans for future scientific discovery!

We set up camp and quickly found the food and drink.

The kids played until it got dark.

Once it got dark, we went to the observatory, which was really neat, but not nearly neat enough for the amount of time we stood in line. 

Day 2: a second walk, and MORE gator sightings.

 There's a big one, swimming lazily along.  So cool.

Dont feed the gators (see the one on the log in the background?).  Someone should have warned us not to feed the monkeys either, since we had 9 in our group.

That's the same one on the log in the background of the above pic.

Adel walking past the "Stay At A Distance" sign.  

Hot dog.

Love this, alligators and vultures.  

We continued the tally from day 1...

...and by the end of our 2 hour walk, we had counted 53 total.  

Although by that time, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who cared anymore!  I could do this all day (as long as there was eating involved too).

Here's the gang looking at a snake under the leaves.