in love with camping

I feel like the story when you were younger about the city mouse and the country mouse, when the country mouse came to visit the city cousin showed all of the fancy things that they were able to do, while the country cousin was very content with just the simple things in life and the simple way of living. i never got the jist of the story until i became the country cousin myself. Moving from Chicago to Missouri was definitely a thing i needed to get used to pretty fast, life here is slooooow compared to the big city life. You get so used to the hustle n bustle yo forget about the things that matter the most. in coming here i had too find new hobbies of course to pass the time being that its sooo boring here lol well at least i thought until i had a chance to take my kids camping a couple of summers ago. we already mastered the art of floating and are very comfortable even with the youngest of the kids on the water. but now we decided to venture in to the great outdoors for the first time. i admit, just like my frst time floating, the idea sounded good on paer but didn't make allot of sense in my head. well that was all about to change, when we got there the family had already had the site set and picked, it was just up to us to pitch our tent. lol thank goodness for country folk.. i felt like the guy from new York city in the pace oicante sauce commercials, straight comedy. after they got there laughs in they decided to come over and help a brother out, so basically 3 minutes later the tent was up..lol. then we realized we had no signal, so no face book or text messages, just the sounds of the wind, bugs, and nature at its best. it took a few hours to adjust to the no noises coming from the phone.. heard the phantom ring a few times, then we started to settle in , enjoy where we were and the site itself. it was right next to a river so as it got hotter we jumped in more and more, the kids decided to fish and the adults did what adults fo in the woods i guess, drink beer, I'm learning that with enough beer here in Missouri everything is fun lol. but after a few of those nd scanning the site looking at the kids n cousins mingle all about, running around free of worry, the smell of a grill going for the burgers and dogs in the back ground. you realize this is where its at, making memories that will actually last in your mind and not on fb... you learn to accept that even though life may be a little slower but it has more depth and value.. like when you work for your fortune compared to being given. you can appreciate the first more than the second.