Paradise Weekend.

This weekend we went up to Silver Creek, WA. They have a Leisure Time Resort (which is another property of Thousand Trails) campground called "Paradise". It was only an hour and 15 minutes from our house. We've never been there before, and when we got there we weren't happy to see that the campsites were all so close together with nothing separating many of them. It looked like an RV parking lot in some areas. We drove away from that section of the camp and found a more private spot near some trees separating the only neighbor on the other side of us. It was much more secluded, but we sacrificed sewer hook-ups (too bad for Anson Sr. - he had to dump it when we left). We were further away from the pool, store and clubhouse, but that was okay, because we all brought our bikes this time, even Anson and I.

After we got all set up, we rode bikes around the campground to see what this place had to offer. We rode to the store and over to the pools and found that they had a family pool, kiddie pool and an adult pool and hot tub all in one area. We rode down to the lake, around the smaller lake and over to the putt-putt golf area.

Anson Jr. brought his own tent and slept in it the first night,
but decided to sleep in the RV the second night. He says it was too cold outside.

Then we went swimming and hot tubbing.
The adult pool was warmer than the family pool and it was 8 feet deep!
Here's Anson enjoying the hot tub.

Ashton is a little sea monkey! He LOVES swimming!
I caught him jumping into the pool. It was only 3 &1/2 ft. deep
here, but he ventures off into the 6 ft. deep area all the time.
It's a little scary. I'm thinking about enrolling him into swim lessons.

The flowers there looked a little harsh,
but I took pictures of them anyway.

Saturday night they had a magician
named Brian Ledbetter come in and put on a show.
He was actually pretty good.

http://www.bluemoontalent.com/brian-ledbetter.html

Friday evening we rented "Mr. Mom"
from the campground store for $1.
Saturday afternoon we watched the movie "Tremors"


and then later that night we rented "TAXI".




The weather wasn't that great this weekend, having rained during the night on Friday and Saturday, making it hard to sleep. There was also an incident involving a truck's clutch that gave out, rolled down a hill and crashed into a trailer and tent. Nobody was inside them at the time so nobody got hurt, but the trailer and truck looked totaled!

We don't have another camping trip scheduled until the end of this month.
Not sure where we are going yet, but I'm already looking forward to it.