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12.12.2012

Flashback: Salt Festival

October, 2012

We met some friends at the Salt Festival at Big Bone Lick State Park. This is an annual pioneer days festival, but it had been several years since we participated.

The blacksmith

Sword necklaces the blacksmith made from nails

music accompanying a talk about pioneer history

fossil from the salt lick at Big Bone Lick State Park

The fossil guy,

breaking from his fossil talk when he saw Seth's wooden sword,

to talk about a rudis and the emancipation of gladiators

12.11.2012

Flashback: September 2012

The weekend that we returned from our trip out west was the Cincinnati Comic Expo. Maya and Seth had tickets for "Padawan Training" with Star Wars prequel stunt coordinator, Nick Gillard, who also played Jedi Cin Drallig in Episode 3.

***Video to come once I figure out how to do it and/or someone is available to help me with it. Uploaded one from my phone, but can't make it work over on YouTube Maya has been calling me a YouTube Noob, and I think I'm living up to that today. Anyway, check back another time for video! :) ***

7.30.2012

Second Trip to Memphis, TN/Horn Lake, MS

It was fun to come back to Memephis Jellystone Campground in Horn Lake, MS and see friends again that we had met on our first trip here. The kids have some friends who are staying for the entire summer and others who are full-timers staying through the end of the year.

Our travel journal

In the evenings, the playground is full of toads

Lego Ninjago with friends

with Love,

Holly

7.29.2012

Memphis Jellystone, Horn Lake, Mississippi

May 2012
Our second trip was really fun, too, but a whole different type of campground. The Memphis Jellystone park, located just across the border in Horn Lake, TN, is located in a suburban area. It is a clean, level park with paved patio areas. There are lots of kids here, including a full-time family we enjoy seeing every time we go back. There are a lot of kid-friendly, fun things to do; and the staff is friendly and helpful.

Jedi craft and training

pedal cars, rented from the campground

Maya's Lego project

water slide!!!

putting our hometown on the campground map

reptile and amphibian field guide; for identifying animals they're finding at the pond in the evenings

my turn on the water slide!

Our First Trip: Oil Creek Campground, PA

classic backwoods campground sign

May 2012
First trip was a little scary. New RV drivers trying to maneuver the winding, hilly backroads of PA; lots of rain; road to the campground closed and no GPS signal to find an alternate route; trying to suppress horror movie thoughts as we trusted a person (who was perfectly kind and helpful after all) who offered to show us an alternate way to the backwoods campground; and, when we arrived, this sign (above) brought all the B horror movie thoughts right back to the surface! Warning from the campground staff as we paid for our site: Be sure and bag up your trash, we've had a bear getting into the dumpster.

We were nervous, uncomfortable, had no idea about most of how the RV worked, and in a whole different world than traveling by car and staying at the Holiday Inn; but it was also exciting and pretty funny!

All of our misgivings about the campground were totally uncalled for. It was a great place to stay! It had an awesome frog pond teeming with wildlife. We listened to the loudest frogs in the evenings. It was remote enough to be pitch black at night, and we could see so many stars in the sky -- we loved looking out the back RV window as we were going to sleep. The campground staff were so nice and helpful, especially to us noobs who killed our battery and just generally had no idea what we were doing!