Higher Ground 2008

This weekend I took 4 of our nieces & nephews camping at the Higher Ground Music Festival in Winsted, MN. I took Sophia & Emily from Todd's side and Nicholas & Evan from my side. Todd does not like camping so he did not go. :) The kids had a great time playing together and have already been talking about next year. :)

Sophia helping set up one of the tents.

Emily helping set up one of the tents.

Evan, Nicholas, Emily & Sophia playing GO FISH in their tent.

Emily, Nicholas, Evan & Sophia playing DON'T WAKE DADDY!

Evan had a bug catching kit and the kids spent ALOT of time catching bugs this past weekend. They caught grasshoppers, crickets, ants, spiders and who knows what else. :) At one point they had somewhere between 15-20 grasshoppers in the container. We were even very surprised when we discovered Sunday morning, that the really big grasshopper they caught the night before had babies overnight. There were 4 or 5 little larva in the container. The kids were a little sad when I told them that they had to let everything go and not bring them home in the van. "Even the babies?!" Oh, yes...........so they went to find a "safe" place to leave the "babies". :)

The kids had a lot of fun playing the bean bag toss game. Emily & Nicholas.

Nicholas tried his hand at juggling the bean bags. :)

Evan & Sophia

Nicholas

Emily, Sophia & Evan

Emily eating her french toast on Saturday morning. She was pulling the crust off all around and it looked like she was slurping spaghetti. :)

Evan, Nicholas & Sophia

The kids all got "blinking" sunglasses as their one thing they could buy in the merchandise tent. You can't see the blinking lights here, but.................

..................using the fireworks setting on the camera worked well for having the lights show up. :)

Sophia, Nicholas, Emily & Evan.

Sunset over the tents.