Roughin' it!

I love camping! This past weekend we went to Hyrum Reservoir for a couple of days to celebrate the kid's last day of school! We had so much fun being together. I booked our campsite over a month ago and carefully chose a site that had a lot of shade and lots of space for the kids to run around in. One of the best in the campground! However, unfortunately, the Top of Utah Triathalon also thought that the same area of the campground would be the best spot for their finish line! We had no idea that we were camping at Hyrum on the same weekend that an annual triathalon is held at Hyrum State Park! We weren't too worried or inconvienienced on Friday, but EARLY Saturday morning the fun began! I woke up to someone yelling that it was only 5:24 AM so she wasn't late yet! There ended up being about 100 race staffers, 800 athletes, all their supporters and half the population of Hyrum city in the camp sites surrounding us! So much for our quiet weekend of camping. But we survived and it was fun to see the action (or should I say BE in the action!) We took off and went to the beach area for a few hours during the most crazy part of it and when we came back for lunch it was winding down. So we still got to enjoy a quiet afternoon. And the park manager was very apologetic and even gave us a free pass to come back on another weekend when there is not a triathalon in our campsite! He said that by the time they realized how the triathalon would be laid out, we had already booked our site! So much for planning early! Oh well! We still had a good time and loved being with our family. The kids had a blast playing in the water and cooking over the fire and riding their scooters around. They all slept well and overall it was a success! The water is sooooo high! It will be interesting to see how much it goes down before our Family Reunion in July.