Where's a bat when you need one??

We traveled to Assateague National Seashore over the weekend. It was our first official family camping trip. All the stars aligned to make this a wonderful experience. The weather was fantastic. The camp site was amazing (thanks Ed!!) --essentially oceanfront. The wild ponies visited us often and were very polite. Even Bambi wanted to meet us but Mom wouldn't allow this until after he finished his breakfast. As a concession, she allowed us to watch from about 6 feet away which was very exciting for the girls. We had a beautiful beach to ourselves and we attended a park service program on crabbing so the girls got to try that out for awhile too.

And when all this nature got dull and the crabs weren't biting, we piled into the car and headed to the OC boardwalk for a quick dose of high intensity commercialism.

We are still working out the kinks on the restful night sleep and though the cold shower was teeth-grindingly refreshing, a warm shower would have been nice. And, I have to admit, I was missing that crazy bat as I swatted away the mosquitoes. All in all I give it two thumbs up. :)