I am being lazy and I took Alaina's trip report. Thanks Alaina.
School Holiday Camping
Day 1
On Monday the 26th of September
Amy, Ben, Emma, Will, Eddy,
Di, Maggie, Emma,
Leah, Holly, Tara,
Amanda, Jordan, Patrick and me, Alaina went camping at Upper Colo Reserve near Putty road. We meet at Morgan’s Rock Reserve under the bridge when we all arrived we headed off. We drove along Upper Colo Rd to Wheeny Creek to have a look, when we drove back to Upper Colo Reserve where we stopped under a big tree. We thought this was going to be our camping spot but changed our minds & we moved to a flatter spot. After we had set up the tents/campers, us kids started to play. We soon found a new friend called Nathan, soon after that some of us kids started to climb a big gum tree. After then we started to get fire wood. Jordan and Patrick started the fire so we grabbed our chairs and got a spot around the fire. Soon dinner was ready, burritos were on the menu and they were so yummy we ate them in a jiffy. We waited a while until the adults had finished their dinner we brought out the marshmallows; we saved some for the adults. When the younger kids went to bed the rest of us stayed up for a while talking and eating more marshmallows then we went to bed.
Day 2
The next morning we got up at around 7’o clock and had pancakes and cereal for breakfast. Jordan & Patrick were still asleep in their tent but then got a wakeup call by Maggie and Emma shaking their tent. We got out the craft things for a while then we got our swimmers on to go down to the river, as we walked on the nice warm sand an adult yelled out ‘look at that snake in the water’. When we heard that, us kids that were in the water nearly jumped out of our skins as we ran out of the water and didn’t go in the water till we saw the snake was on the bank on the other side of the water and then we got in the water slowly after Jordan & Patrick started to jump and flip in the water. The water was cold, most of us built sand castles while the adults sat on the sand watching us play & talked. Then Jordan picked me up & put me in the water, I kept saying ‘cold, cold, the waters cold’ then ran out of the water. Nathan brought his blow up boat to the river to play with. Amy took photos of us playing while Holly & I built a sand monster while the others buried Nathans legs & made a mermaid tail for him & also for one of the Emma’s. Just before we left Jordan face planted into the sand trying to do back flip. After our swim we headed back to camp & had lunch. We then played with the craft stuff a bit more & then set off to find more fire wood. When Holly, Emma & I came back from getting fire wood we helped Jordan & Patrick move their tent away from where we were camped so they could have their beauty sleep without being woken up. For dinner there was tortellini and spaghetti, after we had finished eating we sat around the fire when Nathan & his mum came around to join us by the fire. We shared the marshmallows around & us kids played games, like one person says one word then the next person says another thing to make it like a story & we made up some pretty strange stories. After the younger kids went to bed, Nathan & his mum went back to their camp. The rest of us stayed up a bit longer & ate more marshmallows, when we finished them we sat & talked enjoying the fire before we went to bed.
Day 3
The next day after breakfast, it started to rain so we put rain coats on so we could still play. Amy had got bubble sticks out & we made lots of bubbles. We blow bubbles till lunch time & by then the rain had started to clear. After lunch us kids started to play charades until it started to rain again so we went under the cover to play more charades. When some of us got bored the younger kids played with the bubbles. Ben & I played chess; Ben won all three games played. Soon the fire was lit & the rain was now just sprinkling & dinner was on its way so we all found our marshmallow sticks again making sure they were ready for after dinner. We were soon on our seats having dinner, plates in front of us with either burgers or roast chicken legs which soon disappeared by hungry mouths. We were soon back to sitting on our chairs near the fire playing more games & making up stories or trying to figure out the word in hangman while the adults ate beef stroganoff cooked by Amy. Then the kids went to bed including me. Mum told me that when I was asleep it started to rain so much that the fire went out.
Day 4
That morning was so busy because as soon as we had breakfast we started to pack the tents/campers up which was very hard. We were trying to get the tents/campers down fast so if it did rain our tents/campers wouldn’t get wet again. I was told to take all the kids under the shelter & stay there; I tried to keep all the kids busy. The adults drove over to the shelter & they made us some sandwiches for lunch. When we had finished our lunches we played around on the rocks while the adults made their lunches & then put the lunch stuff away. After that we hurried to say goodbye & jumped in the cars because big dark clouds which we knew were more rain clouds. Just when we got in the cars the rain started to fall so we headed out the gate following each other til we drove off in different directions. It was a fun camping trip that we’ll remember forever.
By Alaina Vella
