We head out around 1pm, not the 5:30 departure Greg and Kelly were talking about but not bad for leaving the house clean & packing everything for a month! Thanks to our other Kelly for taking our departure photos & taking care of Murphy & Casey so we could travel without worry!
It is a gorgeous, cool day and we make good time. Our first stop after Mom & Charlie sleep for quite a bit is Rotterdam, New York, right by the Erie Canal. Lock 8. We find a cool picnic area right across from a campground. The girls roller blade on the bike path, Charlie rides his trike. All are excited when Kelly sees a snake and Greg catches it! Katie and Charlie are brave enough to touch the snake.
After seeing the campground Mom is eager to camp and we decide the weather is perfect to camp tonight instead of a hotel. Our camp book has a write up for a place by Oneida, NY by a casino.
We pull into the Villages at Turning Stone around 6:30. We head to the amazing playground and Dad and Kelly set up our camp. The campground is amazing, the most beautiful one we’ve stayed at besides Fort Wilderness at DisneyWorld! We find a cute burger & ice cream place for dinner and come back to a nice campfire. We bust out some sweatshirts and find our warm blankets, chilly but a great clear night! We see the big dipper right above us.
The girls say it doesn’t feel like a big trip yet, it just feels like a normal camping trip. We tell them it probably will start to feel differently when the scenery changes out West.
July 1, 2011
We take lovely showers and head to the playground. Charlie borrows some trucks a kid left in the sand and we play and enjoy the beautiful morning. Kelly and Katie see what kinds of candy they have at the camp store. Dad packs us out and is appreciating our new bin system. We do a shopping/lunch stop, restock the ice in our cooler.
We find a nice school playground for a mid-afternoon break, we do a kickball challenge and Charlie likes pitching to his little 2 year old friend more than the rest of us.
We head for a hotel in Mentor, Ohio and the lady makes our day and upgrades us to a jacuzzi suite, the girls request to have the master room with the king bed, Charlie, Mom & Dad get the other room with the double. We are unsure which of the 3 flat screen tv's we should watch...we are really unsure that Greg will leave with all of the TV choices!
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