We booked a long weekend in Roaring River, North Carolina. Our cabin was tiny. Technically, one bedroom, one loft and two bathrooms. The boys had their own "cabin" - two twin beds in a loft above the family room/kitchen of the main house. The covered porch connected the main cabin to the master cabin - where we slept - one bedroom and a bathroom (and laundry). 700 sq feet of air conditioned space on 18 acres of land! Perfect for us to let Moose roam free!
It was wonderful to be in nature and breathe that clean mountain air!
There was a nice trail through the center of the property that opened up to corn fields on one side and hops field on the other (also bordered tobacco fields).
Brock was so excited to find a wild mushroom!
We attempted to build a fire in the fire pit the first evening, but so much of the wood was wet. We got a little fire going - enough for the boys to make s'mores!
Moose thoroughly enjoyed the stick finding part of building a fire!
The next day, we drove the 5 miles over to Stone Mountain for a hike to the waterfall. I think roundtrip from the car was about 2.75 miles.
It was pretty slippery standing in this part and at about this same time, 3 other dogs showed up with their owners. We decided it best if Moose and Brent hang out at the top and Kade and I walk down to see the actual waterfall.
Kade showing off the waterfall.
Look! We walked to Stone Mountain Falls!
I made us all redo the picture because Moose wasn't facing the camera! Haha!
On our way back to the parking lot, we stopped to check out the stream. Moose liked wading in it, but that's only because he was hot - otherwise, he does not like to swim.
The next day, we packed up our stuff to head "into town" for some Cracker Barrel breakfast! Can you believe in just one night this amazing spider worked such an intricate web?!?
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| I know it's hard to see - it was on Brent's truck between his side mirror and door! |
Goodbye mountain house! Our favorite thing to do was to hang out on the porch of the house in the shade and just sit around and talk. The owners had lots of games for the kids to do (huge jenga blocks, cards, dart board, etc) and we just hung out as a family. The boys ate lots of popsicles and we sipped our drinks. The big industrial strength fan mounted on porch kept the mosquitos away. It was nice to "unplug" and just spend quality time with the family.
(Picture from part of property - Old shed still standing from the 1800's!)
We arrived at Camp Cheerio! Brock was in the Cheyenne Cabin this year!
Wouldn't you believe about 10 minutes before they officially opened up the road for all campers, the bottom fell out and it POURED!! We were SOAKED! We ran inside with all of his things and made his bed and put out his toiletries. We had plans to walk around a bit - take Moose around the big field by the flagpole, etc - but not in this downpour! Gave our hugs and wished him a great week!! (Yay for bottom bunk!!)
We (I) waited for the release of daily pictures every night, scouring to find Brock in them!! We found him in a few group shots - soccer, fishing and evening program pictures!
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| Sixth boy from right (blue shark bathing suit) |
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| (Brock is wearing his USA shirt and blue crocs) |
This one from the last day was totally worth it - getting ready to go down the slide at the lake! Love that smile!
He was ready to come home after a week at camp! Cheyenne scored Honor Cabin twice this week. He said his favorite thing to do this year was the Canoe trip and favorite evening program was Predator-Prey!!
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