Car camping!

Tim and Pete playing Ladder Golf (Ninja Balls!)

LJ displaying some onions that were being sauteed before going into Hobo pies

This is what Tim and I did on my birthday. LJ and Pete were testing their camping equipment with a quick outing to Ten X campground and we went too. Ten X is a super nice campground, except when there are a bunch of helicopters and airplanes flying over. That got real old first thing in the morning.

Will the real slim shady please stand up?

Psych! Totally kidding about doing it at that particular campsite. Not kidding about doing it at the group campsites at Ten X. Here are some pictures from the super pretty spot we saw on Wednesday.

 There are 2 vault toilets- handicap accessible, Tim knows how to make them not smell bad, and they are conveniently located, an there's running water.

 Tim is standing in front of the fire pit, it's monster big, big enough for a pretty good bonfire!

 I believe I counted 4 charcoal grills, there are 2 nice sized concrete benches for serving food, an animal proof locker for trash and food storage

 This ramada is covering 6 picnic tables that easily seat 8 each, 10 if we have chairs at the end

 the surrounding area is a wonderful Ponderosa forest, those tracks are on a paved road.

 yay! tall trees!

This is the other group site, it's a little smaller, and not too far from the bigger one, but we thought we'd rent them both so there's not like a scout troop right next to us.

The only negatives are:

1. no electricity

2. It's not on the canyon rim

3. It's a little further from the ceremony site.

4. quiet hours start at 10 pm- this probably won't be much of an issue.

Positives:

1. Wicked cheap.

2. can bring in our own caterer and booze

3. It's much more our style

4. did I mention the trees?

5. It's paved, it's got a ramada in case it rains, it's got its own picnic tables, there's space for more tables, there's a decent amount of parking space

6. Tim and I both really love it. 

7. We don't have mosquitos

8. We don't have bears

Ten X Campground

 Who doesn't love tall trees? I might not if we were in bear country, but luckily we don't get very many bears here. Tim and I went walking out to check out the group campsites at TenX campground in Kaibab National Forest. We were going to go snowshoeing, but the snow melted a bunch. So we walked.

I know it doesn't really look pretty, but Tim's real handy, he can totally fix up the picnic benches and get them moved around.

See, there's benches and a fire pit and some portapotties and these really pretty trees! We were thinking about doing the reception out here instead of in a hotel.