Fall Break Camping

Ben is out of school Monday and Tuesday for fall break.  John took off Monday as well so that we could go camping.  The kids have been begging to tent camp, something we haven't done since we bought out trailer two years ago.  We booked a campsite at Tishomingo State Park.  However, Tishomingo was right in the forecasted path of Hurricane Nate.  Thunderstorms and and gusts of wind up to 40 miles of hour were predicted.  This would not work for tent camping.  Saturday afternoon, we decided to find another place to camp for the weekend.  After calling a couple of parks looking for a spot, we decided to go to George Cossar State Park at Lake Enid, which is only about an hour away.  Early on it seemed like this trip might be a bust.  After we got our tent set up, we realized the electricity wasn't working at our site.  We found a site where the electricity worked, then John, Ben, Mollie Grace, and I each picked up a corner of the tent and walked it down the road to the new site.  Once we got past this difficulty, we had a fun camping trip with nice, sunny weather.

When we arrived Saturday evening, there were deer everywhere.  We saw 12 does and this buck.

 Lake Enid

 Trying to skip rocks in the lake.  Only John can skip rocks in our family.

 Saturday afternoon John, Ben, and Mollie Grace played putt putt golf while Annie and I rested. 

 After putt putt and resting, we took a hike.

There was lots of bike riding, playing on the playground, a camp fire, roasting marshmallows for S'Mores and all the usual camping activities that we didn't photograph.