Still a little behind on the summer

Still catching up on the rest of our summer vacation...
The weekend after Pete went back to work we were able to participate in the wedding of our friend, David Mauer. David was my assistant at New American Theatre for a few years and Pete's good hockey buddy. It was a pretty wedding.










The next weekend we were keeping up with our now tradition of trying to see a Cardinals game for our anniversary. We went down to St. Louis, and finally got to see a winner! We also got to spend time with family at our niece Emily's birthday party and a Sunday Brunch that included The WHOLE family and ALL kids!










Our last camping trip of the summer we were back to Token Creek County Park in Madison, this was where Puja had her first camping trip a few years ago. It's a small camp-ground, but it's very close to the Mallards park and there's an off-leash dog excercize area in the park. We got a chance to try out our new tent (third tent of the summer) I think we finally got a winner and it comes in our favorite color!!

We had some beautiful sunsets, a pretty fun Mallards game (even though they lost in extra innings) and the puppies got a good run in the park. We love our new tent and are only sad that we only got to use it once this summer!

The last of our short 2 weeks!

Off to glamorous South Bend Indiana


So off to the South Bend Silverhawks. Pete found us a State Park and we were on our way. The park is beautiful and a bit of a maze! We had to replace our tent when we left Toledo because we blew out the zipper on the door. It's too bad, it was a great tent and we still could have used it if we wanted to climb in and out of the window, but we decided to give ourselves an early anniversary present! We struggled with the shape of the tent, but we love the screen porch element of the new tent.

The park was very nice. There was a beach and we saw a whole family of racoons! It was pretty funny. They scattered when they saw us and the babies were stranded until mom came and herded them all back into the brush. The beach was separated into regular and dog sections so we were able to take the pups down to splash around a little. The game was a pretty good time, the park is a little bit of a cinder-block, but the game was fun.







The final leg of our vacation - 4th of July camping at outside Beloit with Mom, Dad, Dominic, Brenden and Madi. It was an adventure!

We had a blast at the beach, but the mosquitoes in the campground were horrible. We all went to a Snappers game on the 4th but I got a call during the bottom of the 7th to let us know that our dogs had broken out of the tent and were running around the campground. So Dad and I had to drive back and coral them. At least we saw the fireworks from the highway on the way back. Thank goodness we were headed home for a little vacation break, we discovered that our new tent was a piece of crap and our grill broke!

But, just because Pete is going back to work doesn't mean the summer vacation ends! It's just limited to the weekends for a bit!

The Journey Continues

We were looking forward to some camping outside Detroit for a few days while we caught a Tigers Cardinals game. Unfortunately, the weather had other ideas. It took us a long time to find the campground that we'd used a couple years ago, and when we found it, it was underwater! So we camped at the Motel 6! Pizza, TV and air conditioning.



We lucked out with a fantastic ticket agent at the Tigers, without a secret hint, we would have been in standing room, but she encouraged us to buy our tickets in the morning and we got seats in the handicap area on the lower level! No row to climb over, no one sitting in front or behind us, just a very nice Tiger's fan taking his elderly father to his first game! We had a great time, until the Cardinals lost in the 10th. It's still a beautiful park, I just wish we'd seen a winner.


FINALLY we got some camping in! We drove down to Toledo and decided to try to buy our tickets on the way into town. Luckily! There was nothing but standing room available until Sunday night's game. So we bought our tickets and then looked forward to a couple of days of camping. One of the actors from the festival was originally from Toledo and recommended a state park (Maumee Bay). It was very pretty and we finally got to relax and camp after almost a week on our trip! We even got to dip our feet in Lake Erie!

The game wasn't bad either! The park is beautiful, we had a little time to prowl around before the game. During the game, we were rooting for the Mud-Hens against the Louisville Bats, there were quite a few Bats fans sitting in the row behind us. Around the 7th inning, one of the guys behind us asked how many strike-outs the Bats pitcher had, he had 7! We found out he was the pitcher's grandfather! Now we were still rooting for the Hens but we were also pulling for the pitcher! Well, the Bats won but the Mud Hens made it interesting so it was a great time.

What we did on our summer vacation...

When we left Kentucky we had two weeks to cram in as much camping and baseball as we could. Our trip started in Indianapolis. We stopped for one night at a KOA, usually we steer clear of the resort type camp grounds, but this one boasted a brand new dog park. The dogs LOVED it! It wasn't anything big but it was right next to our campsite and though it was against the rules, there was no one else camping on our side of the river so we were able to toss the dogs into the dog-park while we were setting up. Then we were off to the game - Indianapolis Indians at Victory Field. It was a fun game. We were crammed into our section and after a couple of innings moved to the empty section next to us and then it was GREAT.















Early the next day we were off to Fort Wayne and a Wizards game. We thought we were going to have to stay in a hotel because we couldn't find a camp-ground anywhere in the Fort Wayne area. But we called the ball park to confirm the game time and asked if they knew of any campgrounds in the are and the only one they could recommend was the one in the back-yard of the stadium. It wasn't the most private or rustic of parks, but we did get to walk to the ball field!