Final Camping Trip of the Season

We spent the weekend after Katie's birthday camping at the KOA that we frequent.

Let me start by saying that it was COLD, and we didn't get the propane tank hooked up right, so we weren't able to run our furnace at night as we had initially planned to do. We do have another little heater that we carry with us just for cold nights though, so it helped to take some of the chill out of the air. We will be adding an adjustable wrench to the junk drawer in the camper BEFORE we take our first trip next April, as you can bet it will still be pretty chilly then too!! We'll probably also upgrade to a slightly bigger emergency space heater, in the event that we ever unexpectedly ran out of propane we'd still have sufficient heat.

So, the theme of the weekend was Halloween. There were sites that we decorated to the nines. A group next to us had rented 5 sites for the weekend and literally built an entire haunted house for the other campers to go through during the trick-or-treating time. It was amazing! Saturday night from 7:20 to 9:00 pm the campground closed the front gate and prohibited and cars from driving in the campground at all and every kid in the place went from site to site trick or treating. It was so much fun, everyone was dressed up, and the best part is that everyone had amazing manners and were very kind, even after we had run out of candy!! A lot of people stopped to warm up by our fire and say hi before they continued on there way.

This year for our whole family is going with a theme for Halloween, the theme is Candy Corn, Witches, and Vampires. We got Katie the cutest Candy Corn witch outfit, which inspired Dan to replicate a comic that he reads and be a Candy Corn Vampire. Katie helped pick out a witch costume for me, Cocoa (our girl dog) is also a witch and we found a vampire costume for Yoshi (our boy dog). I forgot to mention earlier that since Cocoas skin condition has been so much better lately we took both of the dogs camping with us for the weekend, so of course we took there costumes too, and boy did they look cute!!

It was a tremendous weekend, just us as a family, no extra guests, spending time together relaxing, having an all around good time.

Again, I'll post pics a little later.