This last weekend was Mother’s Day. For the weekend we went camping. This year the holiday coincided with our Anniversary as it did 11 years ago when we were married.
I wanted it to be a tradition every year that our family would go away together for our Anniversary and my husband was willing to compromise as long as we were able to have an evening out to dinner with just the two of us that same week or somewhere around that day. Which, this idea should work out great if our Anniversary is not on the weekend 
Last year we were camping in Pigeon Forge TN.
I was 6 months pregnant at the time….here we were with our barbequed shrimp and Filet Mignon with sparkling cider….
Here we are this year….
And hey look the same meal!!! It is one of the few times that we get to splurge and have steak and since it is the best price buying it ourselves and cooking it we almost get two for the price of one compared to going out!!! Haley took our picture and it was pretty dark as you can see by the time we were able to eat that night…I think it was around 9pm!!! So here it is almost 9months post partum. And of course our Sparkling Cider!!
It was pouring down rain the whole day. We were able to stream a few shows over the iPad for the children to watch to keep the insanity from ensuing and then the power went out about 4pm!! So we still managed to keep them occupied and we finally decided to leave the trailer around 6pm just to get a change of scenery, fresh air….still pouring rain….
We corralled the lil guy as best we could on our bed, it is getting hard to watch over him when he is so mobile…not a great amount but just enough to get into trouble and get slightly hurt if you are not watching.
Then we came back around 8pm, fixed up food for everyone and sat the children down for another movie. We had the children off to bed around 11pm and I looked outside at the rain and saw that some little critter had been out in the rain to get into the garbage.
The park owner usually comes by each evening to pick up the trash from the garbage bins at each site, however, that night it was pouring rain and they had been gone most of the day. I saw them arrive back and they stopped in front of our campsite on the road but we didn’t see them come to our site….I mentioned to my husband that something had gotten into the trash and he got up to go look. We couldn’t even see the garbage can but saw some garbage clear over by the playground…I was thinking a couple of raccoons had gotten into it as I think that is what had happened when we were camping in NC a few weeks back. Then my husband pipes up and says…maybe it was a bear!!! What…and he is leaning way out the door looking around and I squealed at him…”Then close the door!”
It turns out the next morning when the park owner was back around to pick up garbage….it was indeed a BEAR!!! and we missed it only 4 feet away from the window with the shades open and we missed it…of course due to the infernal pounding of the rain, we were not able to hear anything…I don’t think it could have rained harder from the gates of Heaven had the Lord tried!!!
We were at a lovely campground called Solitude Point…a wonderful Christian owned place that was tiny…only 14 camp sites with 4 cabins to rent. If you are in the area, it is well worth coming by for a visit. They do not have a pool, however, if the weather is warm, you can rent canoes, or inner tubes to float down the Saluda river.
All the spots were beautiful like this, your own little cozy area where it was private from your neighbors, so nice and green.
This is the playground area that was right next to us, just so beautiful, a little tucked away oasis and you can see our trailer through the last picture…
A nice little garden area up by the Lodge that has a cross and the 10 Commandments on display.
Hope you have a blessed week!!
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