I'm using the kids computer right now because mine is in the shop but I heard from DHL and they are delivering my computer back to me tomorrow! I CANNOT believe it was so fast! The last time I sent it in, I thought it would never come back! Anyhow, I'll be a happy camper to get it back for sure!
Now onto our camping trip we just got back from on Sunday.
We had fun on a camping trip to Huntsville State Park. It would have been a WHOLE lot funner if it hadn't rained every day but we still managed to do a lot of fun stuff despite the rain. They have a lot of stuff to do there and its only 1 1/2 hours away from home!
They have a free kids fishing program which I was really impressed with. The kids came away with a nice goody bag of stuff, an Junior Angler pin and a certificate. Jeff and I both won door prizes! I got a fishing rod and tackle boxed set and Jeff got a big tackle box! Can't beat that! The rod was a blessing since Michael's fishing rod walked away somehow while we were there.
Here is Alison practicing her casting....
They teach you everything from rules, safely, bait to use and how to build your rod. We actually caught a lot of smaller sized fish on this trip that we threw back. We were catching Sunfish, Bass and Catfish! Fun enough!!
We visited the Prison Museum which was interesting... There were some displays of how resourceful those guys get while in prison. Take a look at this very detailed "Prisonopoly" game that was made by hand by a prisoner. They found it in a cell "shake down". He begged them to send it home to his mother. The guard complied but only on the agreement that he make another one for the prison museum. I bet his mom was proud! :)
We had a friendly little visitor to our camp site...this little squirrel sat 6 inches from my foot and ate a piece of pop corn! In all of our camping, I haven't had one get this close to me.
They have stables that you can pay for and hour our horseback riding there at the park. This is actually one of the main reasons we went there. Alison has been asking to ride a horse. It was fun and different from our usual camping activities. We got back from our ride to find 6 fire trucks lined up the road. A little cabin there had caught fire and burned up pretty bad in the time we were gone. It was some sort of electrical fire. We were pinned into the parking lot so we decided to make the walk back to our campsite and come pick our truck up later after the action died down. A park ranger ended up coming by our site to give Jeff a ride back to his truck later in the evening to save Jeff from having to walk back, which was nice.
Oh and you won't believe this BIG FISH story I have...Jeff caught an alligator on his fishing line!! Yup...I've got proof. The signs said that they have alligators and we hadn't seen any until we were fishing after dark Saturday night. Jeff saw something right near his bobber and thought it was a turtle or a snake. When we got the flash light to it, we saw it was a baby alligator! EEk! The thing was very interested in eating Jeff's bobber and ended up doing some sort of splashy thing and ended up getting Jeff's fishing hook stuck in his tail. Now how do you get an alligator off your hook? VERY CAREFULLY!!!
I had to run and get the camera to try to catch the action...
Jeff and Michael ended up pinning the alligator with the net you see in the last picture to hold his head down while Jeff got the hook out of his tail with a pair of pliers. Then, we stood clear to let him run back for the water which he was trying to do the whole time. That little guy wasn't bashful though...he stuck around the area even after we let him loose. He wasn't too intimidated by the whole event.
