Our Family Vacation!

This was the Yahoo! of the whole trip! Now, maybe you know and maybe you don't, but Mr. Hunter here, in his short life of 9 years, has visited the emergency room 14 times.... SO, that being said... He was off fishing on his own in the campground. The campground consists of an upper level, where we were, and a lower level. A bridge separates the two sides, and, a river runs all through the campground. (its shallow, don't have a heart attack!) The campground hosts were having fun and were driving their golf cart all around. Pretty soon, we could hear the golf carts horn, they were laying on it and coming to the upper level. My friend and I look at each other and start counting kids! We were Uh Oh! Which one?? Well, I could see Hunter's purple shirt on the side of the cart. They started across the bridge and the hosts held out their hands with a thumb's up sign. Which my girlfriend and I looked at each other and said, does that mean its not that bad?? Well, they pulled up beside us and jumped out and here jumps Hunter. He has this big ole fish on his pole which is bent in half! The campground hosts were talking so fast! Apparently, no one has ever caught one that big in this area... remember, its very shallow.., so they were driving Hunter from site to site, showing off his big ole fish!
He was very very proud of his catch!

After a long day fishing and tubing, this is what they do...

Here are some of us getting into the tubes to go floating. It is a favorite thing to do here, and we start right after breakfast, we take a break for lunch around 2, then head out at 2:30, to keep tubin til around 7 or 8 at night. The kids take breaks and fish and then catch the ride to tube again. In this pic, is my girlfriends hubby Troy (striped shirt) and his uncle Tracy, in white, and Maddie is in yellow, Abbie is in pink (she has a broken arm too!) and Tate is the little guy.

They are headin out to float. It takes about 30 or so minutes to float the length of the campground and down to the corner where we moms can pull the trailer around. They climb up the hill and ride the trailer back to the upper part of the campground to put the tubes in and go again!

Hunter out by his self, ahead of the pack. The wind started blowing. It took about 45 minutes to make a trip, sometimes they would just sit there, it was really funny.

Jade, Hunter and Kobe heading upstream to put in. There is a deep spot here, about 4 feet deep in some places, but there is lots of rocks here too, and it makes the water froth white, so the kids call it the rapids. They put in about 20 feet above the "rapids", so that is where these guys are headed. Aunt Terri got really cool tubes, that have hard bottoms, so that they don't have to get their tush's wet...or scraped...:0)

In some places, the river is about an inch deep... they can always stand up in no matter where they are, and it is not swift, so there is no worry about them falling in and not being able to stand up.

My kids love camping here. They call it "fishy land", as they can always catch a fish here. Surprising, but really fun for them!

So, that's where I was all week!!

Keerst