Camping, fishing, and fires

This past week we put in a fire pit. The plan is to use it to burn all the dead wood that is currently adorning the trees in our front yard. To initiate the fire pit, we had some friends from across the street come over for a weenie roast with smores. The blocks actually work great for making smores. They provide a warm place to set the graham crackers while you are waiting for the marshmallows to cook. If you take a long time roasting the marshmallows, like I do, then the chocolate is already melting on the crackers by the time you put the smore together.



After we had the fire, Alise started begging me to let her sleep outside. I caved to peer pressure and set up the tent while Jenny was bathing the kids. The only problem was that the kids took a long time to settle down. Zadik fell asleep around 9:30, but Alise kept asking questions until around 11:30. She wanted to know what was making every sound she heard. Alise slept great once she fell asleep. Zadik, on the other hand, was a pain in the butt. About every 20-30 minutes he would kick off his sleeping bag and try to sleep with nothing covering him. It was a little too cold for that, so I had to continually fight to keep him covered up.

Today Alise and I went fishing. Idaho allows for one day where anyone can fish without having to buy a license. Since today was that day, we decided to go. We went to a place that has around 8 man made ponds that are supposed to be stocked with fish. The ponds were stocked, but with people instead of with fish. We spent around two hours at one pond with no luck whatsoever. Alise was getting bored, so we moved to another pond. The second pond was out of the way, so it only had 2 other groups of people fishing in it. We did manage to catch one fish in that pond. I hooked it and Alise reeled it in. It was pretty small, but Alise would not let me throw it back. She was adamant that we keep it so we could show mommy and then eat it for dinner.