Camping at KOA

Becky wanted to go camping in an air-conditioned cabin this weekend, but since we started making plans a few days ago, we found out that the air-conditioned cabins this time of year are popular...and booked. We thought that a little fan in our tent would be almost as good. We were wrong. We went camping on one of the hottest weekends of the year and we have the sweat stains to prove it. This was the first camping trip since the fiasco of June 2004 when it rained all weekend. Some rain this weekend would've been nice. We went up to the KOA Kampground about 10 miles north of us near Petersburg, MI and pitched our tent. We had electricity for our air mattresses and fan and running water at our site. We bought firewood there and built campfires to cook hamburgers the first night and hot dogs the second - as well as two evenings of s'mores. Even though it was hot, Becky and I sat and talked by the fire after the kids went to bed. To beat the heat, we swam in the big swimming hole they have at the campground and ate some ice cream. We went though about 10 bags of ice for those 2 days to keep our food and drinks cool. Saturday night the kids got to ride around the campground in a tractor-pulled wagon with other kids. They also had a big playground there which the kids climbed all over. We'll definitely be back.