Life has been moving along. I’ve really been intending to do lots of things … but I find between work (where I’ve been playing catch-up) and lots of other things, my energy is pretty drained by the end of the day. I’ve been doing good to get dinner on the table and keep up with the family. I think there’s a bit of depression in there, honestly, but I’m allowing myself to be a bit off right now. I don’t have to be super woman. It’s OK. Anyhow, back on topic.
We had two great camping trips this fall that I haven’t talked about. The first one was a group trip (they’re all groups, but this was a BIGGER group). We had 6 campers (pop-ups, hardside campers, an RV and a teardrop) plus a family of tent campers. It was a great site.
Across from where we parked the trailers was a huge hill and about 2/3 of the way up was an abandoned wooden corral that the kids took as their fort … and at the top of the hill …
A gorgeous view of the lake and the mountains. Then just a quarter mile away
The lake! Where all the kids, both the dogs and a few adults took a chilly dip.
The kids ran feral. We rode bikes. We played Cards Against Humanity. We saw a wedding from afar. We got rained on. It was easy and fun and nice.
The next trip just a few weeks later was very different, but no less fun. It was, however, a bit chillier. We saw flakes falling down as we headed up on Friday night, but by the next day it had warmed up and got pretty nice.
We went for the fall color, but there wasn’t a ton of it available. It didn’t matter though! It was still beautiful weather.
We were a Mueller State Park and the staff there put on some fun activities: paper making and a nature hike. We also went on quite the long hike of our own.
My dad and sister joined us, but somehow we didn’t get them in the photos. We didn’t do so well overall with photos this trip. This was far more about the feeling for me … very restive and nice.
And thus ends our epic camping season. It was a decided success and we’re anxious to start panning for 2014.
Really glad you have been able to go camping.