raccoon creek

what a great surprise!  raccoon creek state park is only 35 miles from city life!  is it a really pretty park with lots of hiking and biking trails,  a little beach and a nice sized lake.

a great get-away for the weekend or a day trip too!  

i learned how to make mountain pies thanks to carolyn!  she has a mountain pie maker which perfectly holds two slices of bread with whatever you want in the middle.  we used pizza sauce, pepperoni and cheese. YUM!!!   then you shove it in the fire for a few minutes and out comes a delicious mountain pie!!

after dinner, we did the same thing with cherries to make a dessert mountian pie.  i'm telling you, the options for these mountain pies are limitless!  a mountian pie maker is a must have!

hydrobikes are one awesome invention!  what a great way to explore the lake and just be out on the water.   i had SO much fun.  jon managed to conquer the hydrobike wheelie and got everyone wet.  it did make for a thrilling adventure!

i led us on some "not so easy" trails that some of the group was a little upset about...  oops!   i just like to go nuts outside.  i do not care where it is... haha!  we never got to the end of the lake trail to find the stone mansion from 1846... maybe next time?  once we actually found the lake (after traveling on forrest trail uphill for over an hour), we made our own trail back to the boat ramp where we started.  leave no trace would be very upset with us.  it was my favorite part of the hike though!  we just blazed a path next to the lake all the way home.  we had some sweet adventures along the way!

the other remarkable event from the weekend, was the fire!  we are totally obsessed with fire.  well, vanessa and i are totally obsessed with fire.  we basically played with it all night.  we were not that crazy.  we kept it in the designated fire pit area.  we just made everyone else nervous i guess...  hey, no one got hurt, and we were no where close to it.  homemade sparklers can be safe, and we proved it... haha!

so that recaps the first camping trip of the season... 

here a couple pics to accent the post.

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