Matt and I decided to take the kids to City of Rocks to camp over fall break this weekend. Matt got off early on Friday and we headed after lunch. There are no campsite reservations, it is just first come first serve. As we were driving the final road to the campsites we were panicked because there were so many cars driving out. We started looking through the campsites and there were cars everywhere. We were a little panicked when we got to the top and hadn't noticed a single empty site. We drove back down and Matt randomly chose one section to pull into with five sites. It looked crazy busy, but we realized it was just cars parked to hike and there were two empty sites. Corbin and Maggie sat at one and Kent and I sat at the other so they didn't get taken while Matt went to pay. Right after we paid Shannon and Jed pulled up.
We had a perfect spot. It was really close to the people next to us, but we didn't even notice. It was right by a huge rock wall and a cool trail to go explore. There was plenty of room for both of the tents too. We had hobo dinners made in the fire, a first for my kids. Then roasted marshmallows with sticks the kids found.
It was crazy windy at night, but my kids slept through it all. I didn't even want to get out of the tent in the morning because the wind was so bad. We made pancakes and bacon, but it took forever because the wind made it hard on our tiny griddle. The kids explored around the camp for a while in the morning and then we left about noon. We stopped at one other rock on our way out and walked around it and then headed out.
