Trip 16 - Memorial Day with Family in Wisconsin

We had a BLAST on this trip, as I always do I learned something new too.

William Robert Clements is SO COOL, and his sisters are SO COOL with him, it really was VERY COOL. Notice things are COOL. :-) Seriously we are so proud of Rich and Beth and their new addition. He really kind of digs his Uncle Brad too...

We brought my Dad along on this trip and it was GREAT to spend time with family, we actually had a nice bar-b-que at Rich and Beth's on Friday. It was great to see their new house and all or Beth's family that we haven't seen for a while. They are a fun bunch of people and we had a great time. All of us spent Saturday and Sunday at the Nechonic Lakeside Campground where we were camping out. It is about 2 miles from their house and is a WONDERFUL park, probably the nicest park we have stayed at so far. The only thing that could have made it better is if Corey, Kim and Gaby were there but they were in Switzerland visiting Kim's family so I know they had a great time too.

Neshonic Campground was a bit busy as expected on Memorial Day weekend, actually the park was full. Part of the park is home to full time spots and they also rent golf carts so it was golf cart mania, they even had a golf cart parade throughout the campground complete with candy thrown for the kids, kind of neat but kind of busy, like rush our traffic with golf carts. The amenities at this park are fabulous. Two large swimming pools, hot tub, laundry, basketball courts, volleyball courts, horseshoe pits, you name it they had it. Very pretty and very green. Sophie and Eva had a great time and so did Alyssa, that's the most important thing; the kids having fun. Actually all of us adults did too.

Some highlights include:

• Seeing Will and all the family
• Making Peach Surprise
• Smores by the campfire
• Swimming
• The Hot Tub (18 and older please)
• Blue yummies by the campfire :-)

I mentioned the one lesson learned - NEVER, i repeat, NEVER try to go 170 miles on 169 miles worth of gas. As you can see by the pictures it was a lesson learned. :-)

The rest of our photos from the trip can be seen on my Facebook account or by hitting the following link : http://picasaweb.google.com/yeldarb0163/MemorialHolidayTrip2009WestSalemWISCONSIN#

Until Next Time - Safe Travels...

Bc

Memorial Day - Lake Neshonoc Lakeside Camp/Resort

We finally booked Memorial day weekend for an outing. We really want to get to Wisconsin to see Rich and Beth and the girls so we thought that weekend would be good for an extended trip. We are really looking forward to seeing them again, and there will be a NEW Clements, yet to be named who we'll get to see too - We are REALLY excited about getting to Wisconsin.

The one thing you always have to keep in mind on Memorial and Labor Day is that anybody who owns any type of camper or likes to tent camp is camping on these weekend. There are a couple state parks in that area of WI that are booked solid for any kind of electrical hook up. Another private park I checked (Pettibone) had four of there over 100 sited left so key to success here is getting thing planed and scheduled ahead of time.

We are staying here http://www.neshonoclakeside.com/ and it looks like a GREAT set up. We may be adventurous and leave on Thursday late afternoon and stay WHEREVER about half way up. Makes me nervous not having things scheduled but worse case scenario we can pull off in a city park or a truck stop somewhere to sleep as we wont be making a "camp" per se on Thursday night anyhow.

I really, really want to get to the point where we simply get hooked up and GO. With no certain destination in mind, kind of like wandering nomads but that makes me a little nervous too - Not sure why, I feel that would be a GREAT adventure and a great way to see things you may not see on the way. HECK, half the fun is the travel getting somewhere...

This weekend the weather is going to be great and it will be hard staying put but I have a big Honey Do list to do including fixing our dishwasher that just went on the fritz, so I guess its best to stay home.

Until next time...