Lake Fairfax Park

We had done camp on 9th June 2018. It is located in Virginia State near Reston.

Camp Location

Name: Lake fairfax Park
Distance: 6.6 miles from Herndon(approx)
Camp Team: me, my wife and our cousin sisters.
Camp Items: Camp Stove, Gas, Charcoal, Lighter, Food items, Table Cloth, fire wood, tent, Sleeping bag, Cutlery, Trays, Water, Torches, Lantern, Cards.

Camping Experience: We started around 10:40 am. We picked up our cousins and started from their home around 11:20 am. Actually, we first booked a campsite at sherando lake. We started to that camp site knowing that it was not going to rain with thunder storms until evening. While we are about to reach the campground in 10 minutes it started pouring heavily. But still we went and waited at our camp site around 1:48 pm to see if the rain will pass away soon. We planned to go any other campground so we returned from sherando lake. On our way we searched online for more campsites. Luckily we got one site, Lake Fairfax Park which is located in Reston. We had our lunch at TacoBell (drive through) on our way around 3:15 pm. We reached lake fairfax. The climate was sunny and as per the prediction there is no rain until the next 3 hours. There we saw a water park having some rides and swimming pools. Many people were there, they were enjoying their time in the summer. We went to the camp office and booked a non electric campsite. We reached our campsite around 5:40 pm. The campsite was pretty good. There are some large trees surrounding the campsite,those are good for hammock. Campsite has a clean area for tent, two wooden picnic tables(having place to sit as well as place food items on it), firepit and grill on top of it for barbecue and place for car parking. As it is going to rain later in the evening we immediately pitched up our tent in the designated area in ground which was fully covered with smooth grass. This time we bought a new big tent.

Then we hung hammock to the trees. Meanwhile my sister and brother in law also came to our campsite to spend some time with us. Then we covered the picnic table with cloth and then arranged all the items we brought on the table. After that we started cutting the needed vegetables for pannneer tikka along with that we unpacked all the the necessary stuff for marination and we prepared it. Actual time for marination is 1.5 hours.But this time we don't have that much time. We just waited only for 20 mins and then took the coal and firewood for paneer tikka. Lighted the coal and firewood using the lighter fuel. Covered the grill with aluminium foil. Once the grill is heated enough,first we placed corn for BBQ, after that placed paneer tikka sticks(skewers having veggies along with paneer) on the grill. Then suddenly it started raining. We started shifting all our items to the tent and car before they get soaked in rain. One was cleaning the ground, one was taking out the unwanted stuff from table, one was skewing the veggies to skewers and one was cooking the panneer tikka at grill. And finally we made panneer tikka and we went to tent along with all needed things. There we started playing UNO and Rummikub. Along with that we were having panneer tikka ,BBQ corn and some chips. We enjoyed a lot while playing the games. Rain stopped but we have not noticed it until we were almost done with our games. It was around 10:30 pm then my sister and brother in law were planning to going home and they left. After that we just hung around near our tent for sometime.

Around 11:30 pm we prepared maggie with the small stove and by 11:50 pm we were done with our dinner. Having hot maggie in dark jungle with just the light of the burning firewood and little cold weather was very thrilling. we took the warmth of the campfire. It was getting late and went inside our tent and dozed off. We got up around 6:20 am in the morning and freshened up. Then slowly cleaned our campsite, packed our tent and placed all the things in the car. We packed trash and dumped it in the large metal container. Around 8:30 am we left the campsite. We went to our cousin's home and dropped them. We spent there sometime and had our lunch around 1:30 pm. Then we started around 2:45 pm to our home. We reached home by 3:30 pm. We enjoyed the camp experience(cooking in woods, walking in dark and playing cards in tent in the jungle). We had so much fun because of the crazy rain and it was very memorable.          All is Well.

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