{"id":619,"date":"2012-05-20T20:24:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2025-09-25T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T14:41:35","slug":"camping-and-eighth-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Camping and Eighth Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent four nights camping at Mather Campground in the Grand Canyon Nat&#8217;l Park.  It got  a little chilly at night, so Aven &#038; Carrie were very glad that Nana had a hotel room.. Torsten &#038; Matt spent all four nights in the tent, but a few nights we were glad that we had Carrie &#038; Aven&#8217;s sleeping bags to snuggle under!! Torsten is under here somewhere:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/#95\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/imgs\/IMG_1523.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The campsite (Thanks Mary!!) and the camping\/birthday experience was fantastic for all involved:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/#41\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/imgs\/IMG_1463.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/#42\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/imgs\/IMG_1464.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/#45\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/imgs\/IMG_1467.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/#79\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/imgs\/IMG_1505.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Torsten said it was his best birthday celebration yet!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/#82\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/imgs\/IMG_1509.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed the wildlife and birds around our campsite:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/#94\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=300 src=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2012\/201204GrandCanyon\/imgs\/IMG_1522.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent four nights camping at Mather Campground in the Grand Canyon Nat&#8217;l Park. It got a little chilly at night, so Aven &#038; Carrie were very glad that Nana had a hotel room.. Torsten &#038; Matt spent all four nights in the tent, but a few nights we were glad that we had Carrie &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Camping and Eighth Birthday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-9Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}