happy campers

This weekend I had nothing planned and that was the plan, to do a whole lot of nothing. I wanted to  catch up on my reading, finally watch the Bachelorette premier (team Kaitlyn) and do a bit of yard work. However on Friday at about noon, Alex decided that we should go camping. So, after looking for a place to go (apparently everyone goes camping during the Memorial Day weekend) we found a campground that still had a few openings so I made a reservation in Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park (a little north of Memphis).

After making the reservation, I ran to Target to buy a tent and get some camping essentials. When I got home I packed as fast as I could and we were out the door. We arrived at the campsite at around 10:30pm and set up our brand new tent in the dark. Surprisingly, it went well and was very easy to set up. Moose was excited and a little confused when he got in the tent. He spent most of the night walking around trying to look out the little windows and trying to place the strange sounds.

On Saturday morning after we woke up, we went for a hike and decided that the mosquitos were a bit too thirsty to keep hiking so we headed into Memphis. We went to checkout Beale Street and of course we had some BBQ. We ate at Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous and it was great. Sadly, we missed the ducks at the Peabody Hotel so we'll have to go back and see them someday. On our way back to the campsite we swung by Graceland to see what it was all about. We didn't take the the tour since Moose wasn't welcome, but we could see what they hype was all about.

Before starting our fire, we drove down to the river to watch the sunset and it was beautiful and peaceful. It was very picturesque. As I've mentioned, the mosquito's were the size of my thumb and veeerrrry thirsty! It made sitting outside a little uncomfortable, but we still roasted hot dogs and marshmallows and chatted around the fire.

On Sunday morning we decided that we would pack up a little sooner than planned and headed home after breakfast. But, we had a great little trip and I'm so glad we decided to go on a camping adventure.