September 2005

16^th Today we drove down to camping at palisade state park. We went camping with our friends the Hills. Dave, Raquel, their little boys Blake and Kyle. They also had their friends there. We got here about 4pm. Its dry camping so we didn't have to hook up. After a while we went shooting. It’s such a small town that we drove for a while and were out in the middle of nowhere. So we got out the clay pigeon shooter and went shooting. That was really fun. We got back and had tacos and made s'mores when it was dark. It was pretty windy so we didn't hang outside for long.

17^th This morning Tre was waking everyone up. Boo hoo for all of us sleepy heads. So I made pancakes for us after breakfast we walked down the beach and threw rocks into the lake. We skipped rocks. Dave skipped some rocks really far. It was pretty cool hike. After our hike the kids wanted to go in the lake. We have a little raft that we let them use on the lake. Alexis did really well using the oars. Tre had fun swimming in it. It was a little cold. Valerie enjoyed Alexis rowing her around Alexis stayed in for about an hour. She rowed out really far to get to this swim platform when she got there, she got on it and did a little victory dance. It was very impressive.  Afterwards we came back to camp and tried to figure what every else was doing. So we could plan the rest of our day. Well we made lunch and then just sat around. Dave and Raquel’s friends were leaving and the Hills decided to leave as well. Dave and I were really put out. They invited us up to camp and then they bail out on us. We tried to be ok about it, but we were still disappointed. So after we helped them pack up and after waiting for an hour to go to dinner with them, they decided not to go- we left and went into Manti to get something to eat. We went to a local diner. Not much for $20 not so sure if it was worth it. Afterwards we went to the golf course by the campsite and hit some balls on the driving range. That was funny because I did horrible! Dave did okay. We even let the kids try it was cute. When we got back to the trailer, we played Frisbee for awhile. Alexis and Trenton went and collected trash for the Jr, Ranger program. While they were out by the water they found another little frog! It was cute. They named it Tarzan. No frogs were coming home with us! So just like the other two, it went back into the lake. Even though the camping with our friends wasn't very good, the camping and the campground is pretty good. We may go around the lake again tomorrow before we leave. I would love to get some pictures of the views and the trees with the kids. Very beautiful!! The drive down here was beautiful too all of the fall colors is such a nice sight to look at. This may be our last camp out before we winterize our trailer. If so, I hope next year is as fun camping as this one was!

Total Trailer time 2005 28 Days