Camping Weekend

This past weekend we did our first (local) camping trip of the season. 

It is already past the middle of July and we are breaking out the camping trailer for the first time.

That is practically a crime!!

And a testament to our very busy summer.  Dang!!

We decided to take the kids to the fair and watch a truck and tractor pull on Friday night, since the campground we were staying at was only 15 or 20 minutes from the fair.

Had I known it was going to cost a total of $44.00 for our family to see the truck and tractor pull, plus approximately $11.00 spent on very over-priced fair food...I probably would have said "Let's not go."

Although, on second thought, I paid $6 for some nachoes that were pretty dang awesome, so maybe it was worth it.

One of the trucks that did the truck pull

A blurry picture of a tractor pulling the weight (notice the BLACK smoke and wheels off of the ground) Jeremy said "Take that, Al Gore" when he saw that black smoke.  Ha, ha.

Sitting in the stands waiting for the truck pull to start

Awww...This is one of those awkward (take the picture yourself) photos

"Hey, Mom, look!  It's a bonnet."  (Actually, it is her sweatshirt wrapped around her head)

My summary of the truck and tractor pull:

15 minutes of action crammed into 2 1/2 hours of time = Boring.

But that's just me.

Raw power doesn't do that much for me.

Nikki and I did walk down to the animal barns while Jeremy and the boys were waiting for the truck pull to start.

Did you know that I grew up on a pig farm? 

I felt like having a picture of Nikki touching a pig was in order. See how she's only using a finger or two to touch it?

Baby goats.

We walked through stinky barns and saw lots of cows and horses and goats and pigs and sheep.  We tried not to get crap on our flip-flops.

And that was that.

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Saturday morning we had a yummy breakfast and then were sitting around at the campground trying to decide what to do.  It was a delicious kind of boring.

Anyway, I found that there is this place called "Pioneer Village" that has lots of buildings and items from the late 1800's and early 1900's.  I am not even sure I knew this existed, and it is only an hour from our place.

I tried to get the kids excited about going with me.  It worked!

They all decided to go with me while Jeremy went and did some shopping.

This era of history is probably the most fascinating to me.

Derrick was bored and said he wished he wouldn't have come...Kendall and Nikki kept on touching everything that they weren't supposed to be touching...and I was the cheerful tour guide saying in an excited voice "Look at this, kids!!! Isn't that cool?"  The thing was, I was sincere.

There was this big building with showcase after showcase of old thing in them. Kind of by categories.

Nikki wanted to have her picture taken with this fake dude. I think he is an old-time trapper.

Inside of one of the old houses. The simplicity of their way of life was astounding to me.

An old church.  So pretty.

A chair made out of a stump.

The only picture of me from the weekend.  Only because an old man offered to take a picture of "me with my family."  Problem was, he did not know how to run a cell phone camera.  That made things a bit interesting.

We are posing here in front of the "Post Office".

They also had a dentists's office, a blacksmith, a doctor's office, a school (super interesting), a printing shop, a general store, and many other buildings.

I think the kids had the most fun in their cool little gift shop.  Nikki loved trying on the bonnets, etc.  They had so many cool, hand-made, old things in that gift shop. I was intrigued.

So cute...

Kendall holding up some furs.

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The rest of the weekend we were at the campground, except for an evening run into the nearest town to get some DQ. Yum-my!!

Swimming fun.  Our campsite was right by the pool, so that was handy.

The boys each posing with their Dad.

Nikki playing "Duck, Duck, Goose" on the jumping pillow. The kids almost always make new friends when we go camping.  Jeremy said he watched Nikki at the pool, just talking with random strangers and he thought to himself "I bet that's how Audrey was when she was young!" 

The kids all brought their bikes and the boys brought their roller blades too.  They had a lot of fun zipping around the paved paths.

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And that's a wrap.  Hope you enjoyed getting a glimpse of our recent activies.

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