Camping Weekend

This past weekend we loaded up the troops and headed south to the Fairmont area for a family camping trip. We found a gem of a tent site (near the showers/restrooms) at a super nice campground known as the Flying Goose Campground. It was beautiful and very family friendly complete with biking trails, playground, mini golf, hay rides, tractor-pulled train rides and a gorgeous sandy beach with water toys. The campground is nestled amongst a bunch of mature trees on lovely Lake Imogene which is super warm. We took our canoe as well and Dylan and Dave got in some fishing and caught a whopper of a catfish. We swam on Friday afternoon into the evening and all day Saturday and had a blast.

The best part is that we met so many nice people from southern MN, Iowa and South Dakota. In fact, we met another triplet family who camped just a few sites away with 3-1/2 yr old triplets who were absolutely adorable (their mama is Tina too). They also had a cousin who was the same age as LTD and they all had a blast playing together. We had the bikes with and LTD were cruising around the campground non-stop. They were in high heaven! At night, the fireflies, campfires and S'Mores were a big hit and Dave's campfire stories were a riot. Dylan had a little 4 yr old admirer (Haley) who kept biking over on her bike with training wheels asking, "is Dylan here?" They were buds and on the last morning she came over with a photo she drew and colored for him and sang, "Dylan, look what I made for you" with the bigget grin on her face. Priceless!

It was a bit sad for the kiddos to say goodbye to their new friends on Sunday, but we exchanged email addresses and hope to stay in touch. It was a perfect mini getaway and one campground we will definitely be back to next season. Feel free to click on the Kodak Gallery link on this blog page (right hand column) for lots more photos.