Camping and Apple Picking!

This past weekend we went camping!!  We were actually going to go a couple of weeks ago but the weather was horrible - it was chilly and rained all day so we postponed it by 2 weeks hoping for better weather... We lucked out! It was dry and while chilly (in the mid-50s) it was enjoyable.

We decided to go camping at Weko Beach in Bridgman, MI as we've been to the campsite before and it's only a 1.5-2 hour car ride away. We arrived with some day light left and Joseph set up our tent while Maddie and I explored the cabin and camp site. We got a cabin for Maddie all to herself and set up the pack and play, noise machine, and baby monitor.

She enjoyed wandering around - we had practically the entire campsite to ourselves!  The trees were next to us and she kept pointing to them and saying "monkeys!" because she thought monkeys were in the tree. (There is a Raffi song that says "look at all the monkeys swinging in the trees"). I had to correct her by telling her there were no monkeys but there were birds and squirrels!  She then kept saying "No monkeys!" and then she'd say "birds and squirrels" when asked what was in there. We added raccoons to the list of what lives in the trees when we discovered raccoons had eating 1/2 a package of marshmallows and 1/2 a container of strawberries!

We ate dinner and dessert next to the fire. Then we all got into the cabin to get Maddie ready for bed. She was very excited for apple picking the next day!  It took her awhile to get settled down for the night, and thankfully she slept in in the morning.

We packed up quickly, grabbed some McDonald's for breakfast, and headed to the apple orchard - I decided on Radke Orchards as they also had pear trees!  It was a long walk to the orchard but there were tons of apples available, they had about 15+ different varieties of apples and 2-3 different pears.  We got about 30 pounds of apples & pears. Maddie enjoyed walking through the orchard and of course eating the apples and pears!

In all it was a lovely fall weekend and we're looking to camping again next year!!!

Enjoying a strawberry outside the cabin.

Enjoying the campfire

In the cabin, reading a story before bedtime.

A poor selfie attempt

After breakfast. All smiles in the car, waiting to go to the apple orchard!

Picking an apple

Taking a huge bite out of a pear.

Picking a pear

She loved counting the pumpkins