Camping Trip!

The First Annual Labor Day Weekend Camping Trip!

We got an invitation to go and see John Marchi – Annie’s dad for the Labor Day long weekend. It started out as a simple Stuart family weekend away – but rapidly mushroomed into a full expedition to Rock Creek! Joe and Diana, and their daughter Courtney joined us along with Kevin and Beverly and their dog Penny.

We managed to leave by lunchtime on Saturday morning and arrived in Rock Creek early on Saturday afternoon.  John and Betty-Anne we staying at the campsite free in exchange for as far as we could see eating ice-cream and driving round in a golf cart occasionally, accompanied by Freddy – their hairy son (dog).

Brice and Courtney quickly figured out that they could talk John into letting them drive the golf  cart.  We managed to almost loose them for the weekend!

Saturday was spent getting setup, we were in the “Presidential Suite” (the camper), Joe and Diana had a pickup bed tent, Brice and Courtney had a tent set up, and Bev and Kev had their Van. We then managed to relapse quickly into long weekend mode – eating lots – snoozing, and chatting.   Kev and Joe rapidly managed to find out that they had a lot in common! Brice and Courtney went tubing down the river.

On Sunday it started off a bit cool and everyone had had a bit of a cool night.  The campground had a Yurt for rent so it was decided that they would like to move into that for the next night.  We upped sticks and all moved over.  The big advantage was that it was closer to where we could have a fire and a bit farther from the road. Joe, Dianna, Kev and Bev shared the Yurt, and we were in the “suite”

We stayed up late drinking and talking, and managed to arise this morning for a massive breakfast again, and got slowly going to pack up and return to Vernon.  More  to follow and pictures!