I'd made plans earlier this summer to go camping with my husband, Emily & Josh, Eliza & Andrew at the Dolly Copp Campground in New Hampshire, and I was especially thrilled that Alejandro and Oscar would experience it with us as well.  Alejandro and Oscar are our two Homestay sons, the former is from Spain and is a senior in the local high school, and the latter is 15 and from Vietnam.  He is a Sophmore.  I'm hoping that it will be a mutually rewarding experience!

The weather forecast was so sketchy for the weekend, calling for intermittent rain and thunderstorms throughout the area we'd planned to be camping in, and therefore, at the last minute, we decided not to go to the reserved campsites, but rather to stay an hour south of that as the weather forecast was not quite as dreadful.  We ended up finding two sites at the Covered Bridge Campground which is one of four or five campgrounds off of the Kancamagus Highway in New Hampshire.  The sites were big and private and perfect!  What a bargain for $22 a night, and how lucky were we to simply be able to drive in and secure two sites for two nights!

The boys were going to share a tent.

Emily got each of the boys a t-shirt; it was her first time meeting her two Homestay brothers!

Eliza, Alejandro and I took a walk down the road from the campground to the covered bridge!

The history of the covered bridge.

Card games during the rainstorm

Roasting hotdogs and marshmallows..

jumping into the Swift River at the Big Eddy

Maneuvering our way from the Big Eddy to the Little Eddy in the Swift River

Although it's not deep, it can be tricky...the water moves swiftly and the rocks are very slippery

Mike and I hiked the Boulder Edge trail? which we could access right at the campground

Awesome views for the effort!

Awesome views for the effort!