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Henry became very attached to Greg (especially) and Alice. They camped with their daughter and son-in-law right next to us. Greg would talk to Henry and give him little cans of apple juice to drink and other treats. He really made "H" (Rich's name for Henry) feel special. Whenever we couldn't find Henry, we checked over at the next campsite & there he would be!
After visiting with Alice a bit, I found out that they loved the Lord with all their heart and we shared our testimonies with each other. We had such wonderful fellowship with them during the next few days.
These dear folks kept inviting us over to eat their food. On our last morning camping, Alice held Jack while Becca fed him some of their delicious blueberry pancakes. MMMmmm!!
We did share our dutch oven beef stew with them - it was delicious (it was a group effort so I can say that). We are going to use our dutch oven at home this year. We want to become more adventuresome and get so that we can do most of our cooking in our dutch oven when we go camping. Yum, I can't wait!
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gailsgarden said…
Looks like fun! Where did you go?
August 14, 2010 at 10:41 AM
sara said…
How fun! I want to go camping so bad- now you have really inspired me. Cute pictures!
August 14, 2010 at 4:03 PM
Priscilla said…
We went to Kennally Campgrounds 15 miles (on a dirt road) outside of Donnelly. Donnelly is about 14 miles from McCall. This campground was up in the mountains and rather remote. It was beautiful!
August 16, 2010 at 9:00 PM
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