Easter Weekend

On Friday, April 2, 2010, Terry and the kids and Ellie picked me up at my workplace. I left our car there and we all headed up highway 27 to Acworth, Georgia. We were heading to McKinney Campground for the weekend. This is the same campground that we stayed in last October. We arrived around 7 PM and noticed the "Campground Full" sign. I hadn't thought to make reservations with it being Easter weekend and with it being a large campground with many walk-in sites. I was tired from work, Terry had taken a 250 miles plus bike ride earlier in the day and the kids and Ellie were ready to get out of the truck.

We were using Terence's GPS to get us up there and he knew how to search on it for various things. We found a few campgrounds nearby and I tried calling, but no one answered. Plan 2: Find a McDonald's and use their free WiFi with Terence's laptop to help with the search. So away we went. Twenty minutes later we were taking up a lot of space in a Walgreen's parking lot (with the camper) while the kids and Terry went across the street to hook up to the internet. So we drank coffee from McDonald's and ate jelly beans from Walgreens and Terry and the kids found another campground just up the highway. Fortunately Terry was able to get a hold of their security and found out they had room for us.





It felt good not to have to turn around and head all the way back home that night. The lesson learned: I will try and make reservations whenever I can!

We were all hooked up by 9 PM and enjoyed a good night's rest.

The next day we took a 4 mile hike up near Cartersville, Georgia. It had some really neat stuff to see.












Did you notice the alligator behind the boys, lurking out of the water?







There it is again!









After the hike we headed into Atlanta to visit our favorite Japanese grocery store for goodies and then we went to the Cumberland Mall. The girls had 1 1/2 hours to look around. Terry and the boys stayed with Ellie in the truck. :)


Back at the campground, we walked around. The kids found an old playground to enjoy.



The Easter Bunny visited us in the RV on Easter morning. He even managed to hide all four baskets.



After coffee and breakfast, we packed up and headed home. The weather was beautiful, everyone pulled together to keep going on Friday night and another wonderful trip is logged!