Great Weekend

We had such a fun weekend!

We went camping as a family, without anyone else, this is a first for us! We usually go with a large group of friends. We didn't get to the campground until about 9 PM Friday night. So after unpacking setting up our tent and making smores we headed to bed! Tried at least, we had young couples camping behind and next to us, they stayed up late partying and fighting (long story) and then there was the guy on the other side of us, he was a grown man, yet got kicked out of the campground for trying to cut down a tree (he had a huge ax and thought he would cut down a tree) he also ran an extension cord from his non electrical site all the way to the electrical sites (all to save $5). So as he was packing up he turned his headlights on to aid in the taking down of his tent, but the headlights were shining directly into our tent (all this at 12 am).
I think I managed 4 hours of sleep that night=(

We woke up the next morning made some breakfast and wandered around the campground (it was very small so there wasn't much to see) and we decided to head to the beach! East Harbor State Park.

On the way, we found an Alpaca farm, aren't they cute??

We had lots of fun at the beach. It wasn't too hot and the water wasn't too cold! I would love to post pictures but my camera broke after we left the beach. It just won't turn on anymore (even with fully charged batteries)=( So I will have to get the pictures printed off the memory card and scan them, which means I will probably never post them, scanning is too much work, it isn't even plugged in anymore.

My kids have at least 20 mosquito or other insect bites each.

Ethan looks like he has chicken pox on his face, poor guy. And yes I covered them in bug spray many times throughout the day.

Sunday we checked out of the campground and headed to Put in Bay! We have never been there, but plan on going for a getaway (just Josh and I) this summer, so we went over to check things out!


I kept telling Josh it was like a dream, you see people drive golf carts all over. So you are looking down the street and all you see in millions of golf carts putzing around! It was a fun day.



The kids enjoyed the ferry boat road to get to the island, as wll as the ice cream before lunch, and daddy's crazy off- roading adventures with the golf cart!

We also "mined" for gemstone or arrowheads in our case.
(You buy a bag of sand stuff that had gemstones or arrowheads and the kids get to sift for them...it was cute!!)

And we can't forget how Ethan threw his glasses off the back of the golf cart, and promptly got ran over by the golf cart behind us! I was still able to put them back together and there is minimal damage. Ethan has this habit of taking his glasses off and just throwing them when he is tired, you should have seen his face when I got back to the cart with his glasses, he KNEW he was in trouble. I felt so bad, I didn't really yell at him, just firmly told him "never do that again." He understood!