We made it! Family camping trip 1 - Camping with 4 young kids is not impossible and actually kind of fun.

We survived our first family camping trip!

It went amazingly well.  Some things that made it work:

1. We camped with friends who were experienced family campers and owned all the kit needed, like a kids play gazebo and also brought so many toys

2. We found an awesome campsite which had 4 pitches and we basically had a private field

3. The weather was basically perfect the whole time, because we did not pack anything for rain/cold. 

I was fairly nervous about this trip because I could not imagine family camping but it turns out kids love fields and playing and freedom and fresh air and I am a converted family camping person now.  

We stayed in West Wales, about 2.5 hours away.  West Wales is gorgeous and has amazing beaches.

Andy bought a second hand 6 person tent a week before we left, and we all crammed into one room together, but it worked:

There were a few nights of sleep shenanigans, but there were also a few nights where grown ups hung out and played games and drank beer by the fire and it was awesome.

Twins slept on one of these IKEA pads, and we bought £10 inflatable mattresses for the big kids.  Air beds are annoying and break and are also the most comfortable camping bed that exists IMHO.

We visited a local castle and the kids had lessons in being knights and loved it:

We went to the harbour and ate lots of snacks:

The beaches were gorgeous, as always (when the sun is out)

Aubrey loved a breakfast ice lolly on our departure day.

So far I have done 4 loads of laundry since getting back and have about 2 left.  Andy has taken the kids out this morning to give me some admin time.  I have a million things I want/need to do.

• Updating budget for July
• Uploading July photos 
• August thinking/planning/goals
• Making a plan for how to keep going with photo albums
• Listing some twin stuff on Gumtree/Ebay that we realized we don't use/need
• Hoovering (done!)
• More laundry
• Texts/emails
• Blog post (a better one than this)
• Exercise (I need to do a peloton thing today or I'll lose my week streak!) 

All those things sound boring.  I would rather be camping.

Are you a camping person?  A family camper? A wilderness camper? Camping curious or a camping no?