Our last camping trip of the year brought us to Hueston Woods State Park near Oxford, Ohio. The park offered many activities and was a very beautiful place. We enjoyed as much of the park as we could during this holiday weekend.
The park lodge had a gift shop that sold mini harmonica necklaces. Molly played her harmonica all weekend long for our listening enjoyment.
One of the activities that Molly was most interested in was the naturalist programs, of course. Molly brought her badge along from our camping trip at Delaware State Park so she could get some more classes marked off. One of he classes she attended was this reptile and bird program where she was able to get up close and personal with this slithering friend.
This trip included just us, an entire weekend to enjoy our little family in the comfort of our little pop-up camper. What joy Kristy and I have with our beautiful angels.
Part of the parks holiday festivities included this jumping gym where our girls found some friends, times three, triplets who fell in love with our Molly and Neleha.
During the weekend we attended three naturalist programs including one at the Nature Center.
One project that I finally completed during our camping trip was restoring our canoe that was given to me by a kind member of freecycle in Dayton. For more info go to www.freecycle.org
As the photo below shows, Molly and I have been working on our canoe since May and with the many hours and elbow grease we finally got to enjoy it.
We finished it up just in time to take it out on a tour of the lake with the naturalist program guide.
After the tour we ventured out on our own and started up the electric trolling motor that my Dad gave me for the canoe. The ride was very nice, Kristy and the girls enjoyed the nice easy glide across the lake.
One of our nights was spent by the camp fire enjoying smores and later that night Molly insisted in sleeping in her tent so we set it up in the camper and allowed her to do so.
The hiking trails in the park were very beautiful and we were able to see many miles of them during our visit.
The beach was a unique feature of the park of which Molly and Neleha could not get enough of.
The weekend was most wonderful, an appropriate end of the camping season. On a side note it was this weekend that gas prices reached an all time high ranging from $3.07 to $3.29 per gallon.
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