My favorite trip was when my husband and I went to Hawaii and we got to feed the sting rays.

So one of the things our family really enjoys is camping and just being outdoors in nature,

whether that's in the forest or out on the beach somewhere.

Over my 11th birthday, my family had the opportunity to go spend a few days at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville.

And if you've ever been there, you know it is amazing and it was very exciting.

We went camping one summer at the, it's down at the Bug Museum which is across from Fort Carson and the kids absolutely loved the hundreds of thousands of books.

One of my favorite family vacations was going to the Grand Canyon and I'll never

forget when we got to stargays at the clear nighttime sky it was so beautiful.

Well having adventures are some of the best ways to strengthen those

relationships within your family and maybe your adventure this summer is

going to be a special trip or something as simple as going on a nature walk with your kids, however it goes for you,

every day can provide the opportunities for special memories to be made. Today on Focus

on the Family with Jim Daly, we will be exploring ways that you can have

meaningful adventures with your family. Your host is focused president and author

Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller. Hey John for years you know this my family enjoyed camping trips

Gene and I think that was the best thing we ever did to bond as a family it had some

funny moments I mean the banging of my head on those slide-outs and everything else are forgetting to shut

the toilet valves and then realizing, uh-oh, something's going to happen.

And the kids loved it.

They howled and laughed at me constantly pretty much and something you

alluded to John is that adventures don't have to be big you know you don't have to

get that camper. We were able to do that and it was a lot of fun, but you can do so many other things

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