July Gettaway #3 Camping in Payson

We went to a beautiful campsite on the Mogollon Rim towards the end of July.  It was a really nice trip—my mom and step-dad came up for the day and that made it so nice as well. 

Jack was very proud of his accomplishment of getting all these bikes there—there were several bike trails around the campsite.

my cute goofy kids…

an impromptu see saw

This Elk kept hanging around our campsite.  At first, we were amazed.  And then it was like, “There’s the elk again.”  She let us get pretty close.

We camped right by a lake, so we borrowed some kayaks from our neighbors—Jennie, theses are the same ones we borrowed when we went with you guys to that lake long ago—remember that day? 

Yes, Savannah was there—see?  Just didn’t get that many pics of her—or me either for that matter.  Probably because she hung out with me a lot and we took pictures together! 

Whenever we go camping, I do everything I can to make cooking SUPER EASY because it is hard enough work to camp with six children.  Conner really enjoyed his premade foil dinner the first night we were there. 

This was one of our best camping trips—great to have grandparents there to help out.

More Chincoteague

See what I mean?   Just too cute not to take a bunch of pictures!

We took a little cruise around the island—I had to take a picture of Angie’s beautiful hairstyle before it got ruined after the first five minutes on the boat.

 

 

We saw these “wild” ponies on the cruise—not really super wild, but they do live on the island—they just control the population by penning and auctioning off most of the babies every year—other than that they are free to roam.

 

We also went to the top of the lighthouse on the island—which like a dork I didn’t get a picture of from the outside.  But the stairs inside were pretty cool.

  Angie made us count on the way down and there were 175 stairs total.  Here we are at the top.

Yup—we tried the crab,  and I can now say that I do NOT like crab…and I tried quite a bit of it.  Luckily Ang and Dad loved it so it wasn’t a total waste.  It was sort of fun cracking those suckers open though.

Then on the day Ang and I flew back to AZ we had some time to kill in Baltimore before our flight—so we went to the Inner Harbor there and the National Aquarium—they were neat to see—the aquarium was AWESOME—they had so much stuff in there—even a rainforest! 

   

Then we said good bye to Baltimore and headed home….

And that was the best part!  I REALLY was missing those kids man…this lady on the plane asked me about our family, and I started to tell her and then just started to cry..it was a little awkward actually, but oh well.  It was so nice to get home and hold them.  It was a nice trip, and it’s always good to come home.