Hello Everyone,

  We had a blast over Easter Weekend at Jelly Stone Natural Bridge. We aimed to get up to the campground around 1:00pm, but who ever knows our family we cannot get anywhere on time, we showed up around 5:oopm instead. We were given site 35, however the cliff at the bottom of our trailer steps was too much to take. So we took the camper up to the office and were given site 37. We thought that was a great site until we realized when you camp right next to the bath house all of the beer drinkers walk through your site and over your patio mat in order to drain. So we will not camp right next to the bath house ever again.

  Anyway it took us about 30 minutes to get set up after site hopping and we were ready to go. The fire was started effortlessly and the kids were off to the playground. Around 7:30 pm my dad and step mom showed up to share our maiden camp with us (actually I took my dad because he is an experienced rv’er and was an asset if something went wrong), just kidding. We could not wait until my dad showed up because he had the burger patties. After dinner we enjoyed the fire and told some stories and enjoyed the great outdoors.

  Saturday morning we woke up and cooked up some eggs, bacon and toast rekindled the fire with the hot coals and checked the activities schedule. 10:00am the kids went and painted eggs and took pictures with Easter Bunny and throughout the day partcipated in Easter themed activities and crafts. I participated in an egg toss with my dad and the egg broke on his leg. Than the next toss contest I tossed with Marine Cpt. Joel DeLuca who was spending the weekend with his family before deploying to Iraq in October. Cpt. DeLuca and I won the second toss we were about 75 to 100ft apart at the end of the competition tossing a raw egg back and forth. We ended the day with a nature hike before we retired back to the site for dinner, kielbasa and bratwursts, ummh. That night we needed diapers, so off to Wal-Mart I went. On the way home flipping through the radio stations I came across a great song that made me not want my kids to grow up, Trace Adkins “Your Going To Miss This”, great song. When I got back we cooked Smores and than off to bed.

 Sunday morning had a 5:15am wake up for the Son Rise service at Natural Bridge. When we got to the bridge it was 39 degrees, it was cold and the service was outside, but it was worth it Jesus carried a cross for me the least I could do was suck it up, thank you Lord.

  We got back to the site enjoyed some breakfast and raided the Easter baskets. Broke down camp, the kids said good by to the DeLuca children and thanked Cpt. DeLuca and his wife for their service, thank you and God Bless you Cpt. DeLuca we will be praying for you.

  Well now that Easter is over we are looking forward to April 18th and our next trip, possibly to Running Cedar Rv Resort at Leesville Lake.

 Keep the coals hot and the fire poker ready. God Bless.