A friend mentioned the other day that she felt like she needed the help of an air traffic controller in order to make her family's summer plans. I agree. Once you start trying to match up with several different families, who are all coordinating with 6 other familes, who need to allign their trips with the waxing of the moon, it gets complicated. But I think we've got the backbone figured out here. As I looked over the scribbled calendar, I realized that we have a lot of little camping trips planned. But they all have their own unique style.
We'll be hitting the southwestern part of the state on our annual tour de state parks with pals Leone-Gettens. We are hoping to make reservations to stay in both a tipi and a covered wagon. Who knew MN state parks could get so wild? (Ok- the covered wagon is in South Dakota).
Our second camping trip will bring us up across the border into Canada, to a little A-frame cabin on an island that can only be reached by boat. We do stay in a cabin, but the lack of electricity, running water, or any hope of finding a roaming cell phone signal, qualify it as camping in my book.
We will then trade Lake Namakon for the Namakagon River- canoing for 3-4 days down it's crystal waters with pals from the boys' school.
The summer will be rounded out by the annual pilgrimage to DuNord where we will move back into the trusty 'cabin tents' for our ninth summer of sharing a week with old pals, family, and gigantic wolf spiders.
Eli also gets to jet off to Bryce and Zion National Parks with his grandparents, and the boys are once again returning to Camp St. Croix for a week.
So tipis, covered wagons, cabins via motorboat, tenting via canoe, our trusty faux cabin/glorified tent on the lip of the BWCA- all hopefully separated by trips to berry patches, afternoon floats in the highland pool, and plenty of time in the back hammock reading great books- the summer of 2011 is shaping right up.
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