Thursday, August 25, 2011

More fun camping trips - Everly, IA and Yankton, SD

We took a couple very fun camping trips the end of July and mid-August!

The first one was a trip to Everly, IA to Scharnberg's in late July with our good friends, Jamie and Lori Gravenhof, and their 2 boys, Dalton and Dawson. We spent 4 days and 3 nights with them. It was a great trip! We did lots of swimming, eating, and visiting. It was a very, very hot weekend. I'm going to blame the heat and being 20 weeks pregnant at the time on the lack of pictures I took. Lori and I both didn't take 1 picture. Of course I wish I had now...but oh well. It was a really nice park. We will definitely go back again. Thanks to Jamie, Lori, and the boys for going...we had a great time!


Our second trip was to Lewis and Clark in Yankton, SD the second weekend in August with our good friends Shawn and Krista VanHeuvelen, their kids Tanner and Morgan and then our other good friends Jeremy and Diana Nelson and their kids Lauren, Lane, and Leah. We spent 4 days (got there on a Thursday afternoon) and 3 nights there. It was a wonderful campground...absolutely huge with over 300 sites. They are all along the river. It was a great weekend weather wise too...75-80! I managed to take a bunch of pictures while we were there...




The first day we got there wasn't until the afternoon so by the time we set-up, it was time to eat supper. We stayed close to our campers that night.


This is the first full day we were there. We all went on a bike ride in the a.m.


These 3 managed to be the Puma girls one day!


The first afternoon we were there, we went to the dam. It was really neat to see.

Here are most of the kids.

The 3 oldest watching the water at the dam.


The Nelson family


The VanHeuvelen family



The Sieve family


The second full day we were there we went and played laser tag. They had a really nice place that had indoor and outdoor laser tag.



















Don't they look like a bunch of bad *****!



The 3 oldest kids!


We went swimming that afternoon. A few of the kids thought it would be fun to be buried!







Just playing in the sand!



Doing a little dance!


Just lounging!



Morgan V. and Madison are only 4 months apart! They had a blast together this weekend.



Even the guys enjoyed the water.





Presley and Leah.



Saturday night we had to go hit up the go cart track. This was a really neat place that had a lot to do. Go carts, mini golf, a train, bumpe- boats, bumper cars, etc. Everyone had a great time!









I'm not sure if the trip to the go-cart place was for the kids or the dad's!

They had a lot of fun too!






Since Madison and Morgan were too small to ride the go-carts by themselves, they got to ride the train a couple times.





Sunday was our last day at the campground. We planned to pack up and leave after lunch. We took some pictures before we left.



This is a nice one of all the kids.



Presley and Madison



The Nelson family


The VanHeuvelen's


And us!


Yankton is another spot we will definitely head to again! Thanks to the VanHeuvelen's for inviting us! We had a great time!

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