We went camping again a few weeks ago and had so much fun. There was no one there again and we had all 300 + acres of nature all to ourselves. We did a lot of hiking and some chilling too. We also did some animal catching. We caught a toad that Lily decided was her best friend in the world. She carried him with her for some time on one of our hikes, but when we finally told her it was time to let him go, she was not too happy, as you can see from the pictures. We got some incredible views of the destruction caused by the tornado of 2008, the same one that hit at the Little Sioux Boy Scout camp. They have spent the last 2 years cleaning the park up from the destruction and it makes me wish we had seen it before the tornado because I cannot even fathom what it used to look like.
Lily recovered from the toad loss after she caught a monarch. She was upset when we had to let him go too, but recovered even quicker when she found her friend "cricket" who for some reason didn't want to leave her and just stayed right by her for over 2 hours! The last night we were there a thunderstorm struck. We survived it fine, but I was a little creeped out by it. The kids slept through the whole thing. By the time we needed to get up and go it was still raining and the water was just starting to creep through the bottom of the tent, so even if we hadn't planned on leaving at that time, we probably would have.
We later found out that Chuck got into some poison ivy and he is still trying to get rid of it! I loved this campsite better than our other one, we had the perfect toilet all set up!, but I am pretty sure we will never camp at campsite number 7 again, as it has scarred Chuck forever and I guess we will either go back to friendly number 2 again, or try out number 6 next time!
