Dates: July 2 - 5, 2009 total $99
Weather: Nice, but chilly (for July!), highs low 80's, lows in the 60's
For the 4th of July we took an extended weekend camping trip to Maumee Bay. We camped in our "regular" site. The weekend was full of activities. We camped right next to Grandma & Grandpa Bachli (much to the kids delight, they had brought cookies AND suckers along!). We took several walks by the nature center and checked out all of the critters.
Here are some of the animals we saw on our walk. The baby deer and racoons were soooo cute!
We walked up the "big hill". It was pretty darn big, and it offered a nice view of the campground and lake. For July, it was surprisingly chilly - felt like it was late September. I can't remember the last time we wore jackets and long pants for the 4th.
Alan also enjoyed watching the kites flying. Hey, is he actually napping??
Alan made us a delicious breakfast outside one morning. On another morning we had cereal - and the kids informed me that they didn't want to use their bowls anymore, because they were "baby" bowls! what?? waaaaa I guess they are growing up. :)
One of the best, most anticipated (at least in my opinion!) is the ice cream social that the park puts on. Where else can you get an enormous ice cream cone for $1? Yummy!!!
Here's the whole gang.
The park also had a bike decorating craft, and then a bike parade. Zack shows off his patriotic spirit on his decked out bike.
Sydney tells Daddy how it should be done! ;)
That night there was a concern down by the lake. The kids had fun rolling down the hill, again and again.
As it got a little later, we decided to bust out our "fireworks". We had some party poppers, which ended up being harder than we thought to fire off. But somehow Zack got his to go...
Sydney needed some help with hers.
Next came the sparklers.
And no burned hands!!
For a treat we cooked some Jiffy Pop out on the camp stove.
By the end of the night, after treats and watching fireworks, the kids were exhausted. In fact Sydney fell asleep on Daddy's lap.
By Sunday it was finally warm enough to go down to the beach.
A shrewd marketer has given all of the kids in the campground a ticket for a free ride on the slide. It was so much fun, who can go down just once? So of course we bought more tickets for the kids. They had such a great time on it.
On the day we left the campground we found this caterpillar. It will eventually be a monarch butterfly. We took him home and it him in Sydney's butterfly house. Within a day it turned into a chrysalis and we are now patiently waiting for the butterfly to emerge!
