Sunday, January 31, 2010

1st Camping Trip and visit to Lakeland

We went to Orlando in January to try out our pop-up camper and attend the temple. Despite heavy rain on the drive down and again through the night, we managed to stay dry had a great time. We're anxious to go camping again!
We were able to work out a last minute surprise for Kaylee when we realized that the Hawthornes were in the area the same weekend. Taylor came and spent one night with Kaylee. The girls were so excited to see each other!
There wasn't much "real" hiking available at the campground, but the kids still had fun tromping around while Derek and Roger volunteered to help with some turkey trapping.
During our trip, we made a drive up to Wekiwa Springs where the kids did some unplanned swimming in their clothes.
It was a nice warm day and we enjoyed "hiking" some more to dry everyone out. This is Florida, so "hiking" is a relative term! It was a pretty long walk, and we were all a little disappointed by the destination, but everyone ended up dry and it was good exercise at least!
The next day, we packed up the camper and headed to Lakeland to visit friends. Thanks again to Sean & Melanie for letting us stay with you. It was awesome to see everyone!

4 comments:

Jodi said...

Taylor loved the visit too! Next time the "moms" get to visit longer :-)

Melanie said...

So glad you came back to lakeland to visit...it was really fun, but too short! I know you have lots of offers , but you can stay with us again anytime!

ps. I knew you would put up that horrible pic...bad latisha lol!

Jennifer said...

I wish I'd gotten to visit with you a little more at church. We at least got to have your children in Primary for a week! :)

Emily said...

I love how the shoes are prefectly ordered outside the pop-up. I wouldn't expect to see it any other way. Looks like fun! We should meet in the middle to camp sometime and we'll put up our puny tent :)