Camping trip

This year, me and the kids took a trip up to Bay City State park to go camping.... We didnt do tons of things, as we were only there friday night through Sunday. But I do believe the kids enjoyed themselves, I know I did...

Here is how our site looked... our tent looks a little crooked, but I assure you, it kept out the rain... LOL and it seemed pretty straight while you were inside.

So here are some snapshots of Friday. I have include pictures of our trip up as it shows what we were driving through. Poor Baxter didnt fare too well... Every time we got in the van, with the exception of going home, he got ill... literally. As we were setting up our site, Alysha made 2.5 gallons of lemonade for our weekend. The kids immediately got out the games and started playing catch, I think Baxter was just glad to be out of the van... For dinner that nite, we roasted our hot dogs over the fire, We would have roasted marshmallows on Friday, but it started to rain, so we turned in early for the night... only 9 pm... we had strung christmas lights inside of the tent for a "nite lite' but once Tom and sarah were sleeping, I unplugged that... We had also taken along an extra sleeping bag, which baxter quickly claimed as his own...

On Saturday, Alysha decided to be our smoke magnet. Taking over for uncle dan it would seem... Every time she moved, the smoke moved with her... .After breakfast and some cocoa, we decided to head over to the park to check it out... VERY NICE... there was quite a hike to the beach, (I dont remember it being so long before), in route, we walked past the lagoon, where they were having a water foul demonstration... they kept handing out those damn duck callers, and that is all you would hear through the night. In fact Saturday night, three sites down, the damn kids kept yelling "you say Hillshire, I'll say farm"... "Hillshire".... "Farm"... you get the idea. that inconjunction with the duck callers... .UGH

Once at the beach, Tom and Sarah made friends quick.. .you will notice in the beach pictures, that initially, Tom is being chased by a group of girls, then by the end, he is doing the chasing... Alysha was a great big sister and watched over them all.

Once we were back to our site, the kids had races, blew bubbles, Sarah decided to go swimming in a tote, and we roasted marshmallows for smores of course. We had also hit the local dollar store for some more entertainment... We had a good day on Saturday... and, we all got to shower in the parks newly renovated bathrooms...

These pictures are kind of in order, but the beach and park are grouped at the end of the slideshow... sorry...

Sunday... we moved rather slowly... we got up, had some breakfast, cocoa and coffee, and around 10 or 11 we began to get things ready to go home... all the fun stuff... we decided to hit the park one more time... then we were off for home.. .I treated the kids to McDonalds on the way, and we were home by 330. Where the kids told their dad all about their trip... then hit the slip n slide...