We're going camping! Its Memorial day weekend, a great weekend for camping. I had started thinking of planning a camping trip for this weekend a month or so ago. I wanted to take mom and KG to Lamberts in Missouri so I was looking into camping spots in that direction when I came across camping on the Current River. The current river is a spring fed, almost crystal clear river. I am not much for water I can't see into, but this sounded really nice and fun! So here we come Van Buren, Missouri and the Crystal River.
We made reservations at the Jellystone campground. There were many benefits to this campground, they had a pool and water play area, they have planned activities throughout the weekend for kids and families and we could get a camping spot right on the river.
The kids were ready to jump in, they weren't to surprised by the chilly temperatures. It was chilly to me!
The location is beautiful! Lots of people are enjoying the weekend and floating on the river.
The kids enjoyed playing water guns with grandpa!
This is Tylers t-shirt.
Tanners shirt.
Tapanga's shirt.
The theme for this weekend was focused around the Indy 500. We also made license plates.
Of course, whats camping with out a fire and marshmallows. On Saturday, mom and Thomas cooked hamburgers and hotdogs on the fire and s'mores for dessert! Yummy
Tapanga was making some of the cutest poses for pictures!
The plan for Sunday was to float down the river. We decided to take the short float which could take at least 4 hours. Our plan was to float down the river starting at Riverraft. Along the way we can stop at sand bars, our campsite and any interesting spots. We decided to rent a big raft and three smaller floats that we would tie to the bigger raft. We packed a cooler of drinks and a bag of snacks to take along.
There are lots of pictures from our journey down the river....sorry...but many cute shots of the kids.
I bought a new camera for this trip....I hadn't realized how fancy the waterproof cameras had gotten. But I bought a waterproof digital camera that is water, shock, and dust proof! I played around with it and took shots of the kids swimming around.
After swimming and floating the campsite hosted their own Indy 500 race. The kids made race cars out of boxes and raced around the track.
The campsite also did a hayride. Tyler didn't want to ride but the other two did. We had a special rider join us...Yogi Bear!
Before heading out of the area I wanted to go check out one of the natural spots in the area, Big Spring. This large spring is one of the biggest around and comes out of the base of a cliff. It averages 13,000L of water a second! On the placard by the spring it said it could fill the baseball stadium in St. Louis in 33 hours! Wow, that's a lot of water.
After heading out we went toward Sikeston and Lamberts where we enjoyed a great lunch! I think mom and KG had a pretty good weekend, it seems KG is looking for a bigger tent for next time. What a nice weekend we had!
this sounds really fun, a really neat place with all that to do! maybe we'll go one day when loni is bigger :)
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