The fleet made it's summer debut this past weekend as we trekked down to Jones Pond campground for a family camping weekend. The campground was sponsoring their "Friends and Family" weekend and the Rochester based Prato and Myers clan came down to Angelica for a summer camping kickoff. Cathy and Joe spent considerable time trying to get their van all refurbished in time for the weekend, while I tried in vain to finish grading and landscaping our seasonal site in preparation for the weekend. Suffice to say, neither of us quite made it, but we did not let it get in the way of a good time. Jim, Grace, Joe and Thomas met up with us Saturday afternoon just in time for pot luck dinner. Cathy and I whipped out the dutch ovens and cranked out some awesome baked beans and BluCherry cobbler. Earlier that morning, Cathy, in our regular experimentalcampcooking mode, pulled off some perfect corn bread in the dutch oven for breakfast as well. I think she was atoning for a 1974 incident where she poisoned the whole family with Corn bread she made in 7th grade HomeEc.
[ i did not eat corn bread for 20+ years after that.. ]
We hit the ice cream social on saturday afternoon as well and enjoyed many beverages waiting out the rain sun rain sun rain sun rain sun. Jimmy arrived with his new tent that attached to his Honda. While it was not quite a westy, Jim can easily brag about the countless hours he has NOT spent underneath his vehicle, unlike the Pratos and myself. We all gathered around to help set up the new tent. While I supervised GrandaPa Myers style
A great weekend - hopefully we can get the entire clan here in september.
The end of the weekend saw a small lesson in "How to flatten your tent for roll up"
The nieces tried first to my disappointment
A few more shots of the weekend
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