Oh, My Soul Rejoice!: Camping

Last Day of Camping and Our Road Trip Home

Our last morning of camping was fun. Levi and I woke up a bit later and when I looked out the tent I saw a little girl eating a Hershey bar for breakfast.......the fun things you do while camping.

Then the real breakfast was served and then we got packing.

While Mark loaded the van I took some fun pictures of Lulu jumping.

Then as we were driving out of the campground we saw this camper and had to get a picture. We now are trying to figure out how we can get a cute little camper like this and what we would paint on it.

Here we are in Hood River getting ready to cross the toll bridge into Washington.

As we were driving along Mark saw some buffalo and we don't normally see those in WA so we drove up this road to try to get a better look and then saw some zebra and giraffes along with camels, and ostriches. We still aren't sure what exactly it was but it looked like a rescue farm.

Then we stopped at a lookout spot and got this picture of our campground from the other side of the Columbia River.

Then we saw a VW bus so I had to take a picture. We would love to be driving one of these towing a cool little camper someday.

We stopped at the Maryhill Museum of Art and walked around the grounds.

Once we hit Yakima we were very hungry. So we had burgers at the famous Miner's. The burgers there are HUGE and this place is ranked 3rd in our state for best burger.

After burgers we went across the street to this really cool McDonald's for some ice cream cones.

Have you ever seen such a cool McDonald's? We sat in the car booth. Lulu and Levi loved it.

We had a long day of driving but made it home in time to get baths in and head to bed after a fun extended weekend of camping.

Third Day of Camping

Another good morning! Look who was frying up the bacon. We had a yummy breakfast.

Lulu really enjoyed camping. She liked everything about it.

Here we are playing eye-spy early in the morning.

Levi loved camping too.

After a fun morning around the camp site we went for a drive on the Historic Columbia River Highway. This darling shop was our first stop and we had some more ice cream and saw their classic cars that had on display.

Right next to the ice cream shop was a coffee shop. And if you know Mark he's always up for trying out the local coffee shops.

This picture is for Mike, Julie, Josiah and Kamin. We miss you guys and thought of you when we saw this.

Then we kept going on our drive and Lulu and Levi both fell asleep. So Mark and I pulled over at the look-out point and got some pictures.

Then in the evening we were back at the camp site and we went for an evening walk. We went to go watch the sun set and see if we could see a train go by on the track that was probably 300 feet from the campground we were at.

This is a picture of Memaloose Island. We were staying at Memaloose State Park and Mark gave us a history lesson on the island because he did some research before we went.

We had another fun day of camping.

Second Day of Camping

Good morning!

Mark made us coffee every morning.

Here's Mark and Lulu enjoying some breakfast biscuits and gravy.

Then we went for a morning walk. Here we are looking over the Columbia River.

Levi took some naps and slept really well. It must have been the fresh air and all the running around he did.

Lulu enjoyed doing the dishes.

Then after Levi woke up from his morning nap we headed into Hood River and spent the day walking around the town. We ate lunch at a Mexican restaurant and then bought Mark some flip flops since it was so warm out.

We then had ice cream at the local ice cream shop. The hat I'm wearing Mark picked out in one of the shops and had me try it on. Then he said "I'm getting that for you." So now I have a nice sun hat!

Then we headed to the beach. Hood River, OR is right on the Columbia River. The wonderful thing about this beach is that the sand is so nice and clean and the water is fresh water with no tides to worry about because it's a river.