Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Vogel 2012 Part 2

Saturday morning we headed out to play on the playground.



Stopped by Granny & Gail's cabin to say good morning.  
Lunch time was reunion time and of course it started raining.  After eating they had fun playing in the creek next to the picnic area.  They played until I got them out because they were so cold.  

We headed back to the camper and watch a movie outside with Michelle, Victoria, Lisa & Joe.  


After everyone left we ate dinner, played a game and went to bed early.  
It's a good thing we went to bed early.  At 6:45 I heard our cooler with ice get knocked over.  I woke Matthew up and looked out the window and saw a black bear in our cooler.  The only thing in the cooler was a pitcher of lemonade.  I banged on the window and he ran off.  I just wished I had taken a picture before I scared him off.  He did leave a few teeth & claw holes in the cooler.  It's a good thing Granddaddy was not sleeping in a tent that night.  When the kids got up we told them about the bear & the cooler.  Now they think bears drink Lemonade!  

After our excitement we headed to Hiawassee.  We went to a playground before it got too hot.  


We even had a few races down the slides


Charlotte just a swingin'

Then we went to the Fair.  The kids had not been since they were 5 months old.  

We ate some boiled peanuts and boy did Ellie like them.  






We watched the pig races.  

Evan even picked the winning pig.  

He won the blue ribbon.  

The rides opened up so we went and rode a few rides.




It was so hot we headed back to the camper.  Another night of swimming and roasting marshmallows.  




Ellie had a smore!

No more bears came to our campsite.  I guess they knew we were out of lemonade!

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Vogel 2012 Part 1

We had another great camping trip last weekend.  We went to Vogel State Park in Blairsville for the annual DeMore Family reunion.  We got up there Friday morning got our site, ate lunch and then went to Helton Creek Falls.  We had to walk down a narrow steep trail to get to the water.  It was a good thing Granddaddy was with us to hold Evan's hand.  

We got to the bottom and Evan & Ellie were walking in the water and Evan fell right in the cold water.  He didn't mine at all, he thought it was so funny.  


There were other kids playing so of course they were following them.  
Charlotte just played in the shallow puddles.  


Dinner time with Granddaddy.  Granddaddy stayed with us on Friday and slept in a tent.  





After dinner we went to the beach area.  
 Look how deep Charlotte is.  




We had a small fire and roasted some marshmallows and had some visitors.  
Ellie and Evan were trying to scare my family with their dinosaurs and snakes.  


Night time milk with our cool straws Sylvia gave them.  

 It was a fun first day!