Campin' Up Nort'

Last weekend, Fisch and I traveled 5 hours up North to Hayward, WI for Fisch's family annual camping trip.  We stayed at the KOA campground.  It must be the place to stay because it was super crowded but we had a great time nonetheless.  We had fun tubing down a river for the second time this summer, playing volleyball with the whole family, and because it was "Chocolate Weekend", Adriana, their cousin, Andrea, and I even took a trip down the chocolate slip n' slide!  There is also nothing better than waking up and sitting by the campfire with a cup of coffee and hommade banana bread :)

1. Surrounded by Pines 2. Coffee and Banana Bread by the Campfire 3. Lumberjack Breakfast Over the Campfire 4. Chocolate Slip N Slide 5. Adriana 6. Slip N Sliders 7.West's Ice Cream...mmmm 8. Fudge

4th Annual Birthday Camping Trip

 

          Last weekend Fisch and I went on my annual birthday camping trip with a few friends.  This year we went to Sweet Minihaha campground and tubed down the sugar river.  

    Like always it was a pretty crazy time...but it was mostly mother nature that was crazy.  Our first night there it rained, not surprising since it always does the first night on this camping trip but crazy because we hadn't had rain in a month and a half.  We think it may have been because of the rain that a big branch fell on one of our tents almost squishing one of our friends.  Talk about scary!  Shortly after, the raccoons came.  They preferred the spicy hot Cheezits and we were glad everything else was in the car.  The fun didn't stop once morning came when we woke up to a herd of cows on our campsite!  Apparently they walked across the river and couldn't find their way back.  

    The rest of the weekend was filled with summer shandy, squirt gun fights, and a 5 hour tube ride down the river (still kicking myself for forgetting my water camera).  It is a tradition I look forward to every year and hope it continues for many birthdays to come.

Wordless(ish) Wednesday: Devils Lake State Park and Camping

Every year we go camping with Fisch's family in some new location around WI.  This year it was at a campground near Devil's Lake State Park, which was great for us since it is only about 45 minutes from Madison.  One of the reasons I love WI so much is for it's varying landscapes, from flat farmland to mountainous hills to waterfalls.