Did
Treat the car like a giant backpack
Hike up two tiny "mountains"
Kayak 6 miles in 4 hours and explore a teeny island
Discover crazy new bugs and the Meadow Jumping Mouse
Play pattycake with some animal on the wall of the tent
Discover that squats are excellent prep for peeing in the woods
Read many books
Cook breakfast on a waterfall
Hike in the rain
Ditch camp to see two movies
Incur major wrath by eating boil-in-bag meals involving dairy products
See about thirty different frogs
Fall for a wonderful walking stick, and leave it behind for other travelers
Take many dips
Convince Husband to swim with me to an island
Exclaim over teeny snakes
Get attacked by exceedingly devious grass seed heads
Eat wild blackberries by a beaver pond
Slosh across many beaver dams and rain-slick trees
Find some truly remarkable outhouses
Meet a few fellow hikers
Finally do an actual backpacking trip
Make new jokes about the fundamental necessity of algebra
Cultivate very strong smells
Feed a few thousand blackflies
Didn't
Do the usual overly-anal packing job for car camping
See any megafauna
Get nearly as soggy as possible
Sleep through the giant thunderstorms
Actually take entertaining cartoony pratfalls that seemed imminent
Offer to help a particularly glum hiker
Take advice about seeing waterfalls
Stay at the easy places that came before the good places
Ever see the GIANT BIRDS we flushed out of the woods
Call Husband's mom on her birthday
Forget to take pictures
Sit with the giant stuffed lumberjack at the Lumberjack Inn
Explain to the locals what Moonrise Kingdom was about
Manage to stick with the awesome Quebequois radio station
Get to do enough
Decide to never come home
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