Camping 2008

Well it started out we were going to do that whole tent thing...Just for the experience for K. Well come the day I made the reservations I chickened out and got a cabin. Yeah we stayed at the KOA had Cable TV and WiFi oh yeah the 2 most important thing was we slept on beds and had HEAT.


So this trip was just a short 2 day get out of town trip. Something Isaac and I we're known to do before K was born so was nice to get back to who we are with our random trips of departure. Ok so we left at 4Am for the 5 hour drive to Savannah Ga. Savannah was our first REAL stop on our way to the South Carolina KOA. Kayden was really excited he knew we were going on a trip but he really didn't know as he had never

Done anything like this before. Trips for him had only been to a Hotel in cities. But anyway's, I finally crashed about Port Orange still no luck with K. Isaacs plan of both of sleeping up there didn't work I woke up 15 mins before Jacksonville and took this Pic of K in his carseat and the road in front of us.

K is playing with his Toy Cell Phone

We then Headed through Jacksonville through the many Twist and turns they have on the FREEWAY. Dude there was a 75 Degree turn on the freeway had to go from 70mph to 20mph. Ok so whoever designed this freeway mess had to be on something or they left the plans out and their child drew on it with black marker. Pure craziness. But I have to say K was cracking up over all this twisting and turnings. I think he is going to be my roller coaster child.
Finished the wild drive through Jacksonville and then he finally crashed until we stopped for gas right over the boarder. $2.59.WOW and I never thought we’d buy gas under $3.00 again. POTTY BREAK and Run around time.

We headed up to Savannah, GA to go explorer some History. Oh I never get car sick and well driving on all the cobble roads by the river was about to push I over the edge. Mind you this was EXTREME cobble stone not like what we have now days. Like real stones not the smooth stones like we have NOW. It only took an hour but we found parking. We parked and headed down to the riverfront and then it hit. My camera BROKE. We kept trying but no LUCK. We did a little looking around but due to the cold and no camera we took off to go check in at the camp ground. We plan to come to Savannah again after the New Year.
We we’re there within the hour and we set up the cabin and the laptop. We had to find the Wal-Mart to grab some stuff. Well I left that to Isaac. If you don’t know Isaac that means AWWW CRAP I wasn’t thinking. We got off the freeway and all he tells me is it’s this way. We drove that way 5 mins and I tell him it’s the other side. “NO it’s this way, I know it is.” (Magnetic booger is activated) We keep on going for another 20 mins. Mind you I told him he was wrong since the 5 min mark. I finally got him to turn around and sure enough Wal-Mart was just on the other side of the freeway. All He could say was “OH SHUT UP” While laughing. But if you knew his past of directions; while on vacation. Yeah all in all he goes the Opposite of what I tell him and well he has yet to be right. Well shopping is shopping but we had to also pick up something for smores. We got hotdog roasters to do the job.
Yeah so we couldn’t figure out what to eat so we went to crackle Barrel instead. Cost only $22.00 to feed all 3 of us and we were stuffed so all was well. Not the best service but boy was the food good. I think our waitress might have been scared of children. Both tables with children she had in her area got bad service. I felt bad for her but how can you not like children. I just hope it was an off day and hope her day only got better later on.
We got back to camp and Isaac took K to go buy some wood for the camp fire and I was online wasting time and staying warm. Oh I guess I should tell you the Temperature was 68 degrees. I looked up the weather for our trip so we we’re ready for it minus we don’t have those poofy jackets. About 15 min’s later K came running up to the cabin door and yelling for me to come out and see what he made. He was so excited for he has never seen a camp fire. I went out there as the fire was now starting. I ran back in and grabbed the camera and it’s taking OK night pictures. So it has a light issue. We’ll I snapped away so the pictures will tell the story.
We roasted marshmallows and just hung out by the campfire and enjoying watching K having a blast. Watching him made the whole trip worth while. K loved roasting the marshmallows and letting them fall into the fire. As this was his first time it was all about learning about this type of thing. He was learning some science on our trip.
We let K stay up until the fire burned out and then it was off to get ready for bed. We all crashed within in 5 min’s of lying down. What a long and exciting day.

We all got up and went out to the lake. Again tried to take photo’s but K had no head due to the camera light issue. So no luck there; but we had fun going for an early morning walk. We got back to the cabin and started packing up to go and K ran to the car and got him into his seat and refused to get out. Dad “K you got to go brush your teeth.” K “No; don’t want to get out.” Dad “But we need to.” K “It’s too COLD” Isaac and I just had to laugh.
We checked out and headed south. We ate in the car and headed to Wal-Mart. Time for a new camera and so we upgraded just a little. Isaac wanted to upgrade a little more but well I just wanted something that fits in my bag just like my old camera. So I got another Pink camera. We thought about going to Hilton Head but changed our minds as we want to save that for the next trip. We went to Historic St. Mary’s GA and walked around took lot’s of neat photo’s. For those who don’t know us or don’t know us well; we love to go and do that off the tourist charts type of stuff. We are planning a trip back there this year; it’s a very relaxing place to go. We found it by reading signs and saw it was historic. I recommend all to read those signs and get off the beaten path and explore. You just might find that place you want to come to again and again. What better of a place to be that doesn’t cost you a ton and you learn things about history and best of all you can RELAX. We spent a few hours there and then we’re off again. We drove right on through to Palm Coast and then we stopped for Dinner and to walk around at Target. Nothing fancy just breaking up the ride home. We finally got home at 10:48 so not much time to relax so K was up until midnight and I was up until 2 washing Isaac’s work clothes and then I crashed.

Monday - CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN put everything away wash laundry clean out cooler clean the car. LOL but well worth it. We had a great time.