This last camping trip we embarked on, we didn't have to worry about fighting rain or mosquitos or having it be too hot or anything like that. This trip, the forecast was for snow. Yes, Snow in October. It's not unheard of, but it is rather unusual to have snow that early. Although I do remember a handful of childhood Halloween trick or treats in my snowsuit. But still, it's OCTOBER for goodness sake. The snow and accompanying freezing snap put an end to our vegetable gardens but we still managed to enjoy ourselves immensely on our trip to Baylor Regional Park in Norwood Young America.
The campground hosts maybe 40-50 sites. And by their online reservation system, they were about 75% full that weekend. When we arrived, we saw that there were 8 other campers. 8. So we had a lot of other campers that had a last minute change of heart. Turns out it's really nice to go camping at a virtually empty campground. Camping within itself is a pretty friendly venture. Everyone is nice and talks to each other, greeting one another, chatting about the weather or events. But these campers were REALLY friendly. Everyone was enjoying the cold snap together.
We woke up Saturday morning to this:
Then it warmed up consideridbly, the sun tried to come out and we made s'mores by the fire. The snow quickly melted.
We went to the playground a few times and even headed into town to get some supplies and to check things out. The kids got to ride their bikes on the circle without the worry of traffic (since there was NO traffic in the campground this particular weekend). And the kids didn't seem to mind doing all this in their winter gear finest.
We stayed late on Sunday to absorb as much of the outdoors as we could. Then after we headed home, Mike quickly unpacked a large chunk of the camper BEFORE the next snowstorm was due. Sunday night, it snowed all night long.
Thankfully today it's going to hit almost 60 degrees. And we have another camping trip this weekend.
Only in Minnesota!
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