Indiana, Anderson - Sunday, May 25, 2014 - Timberline Valley RV Resort

Sometimes we get caught up in the long weekend with family, friends and hopefully sunshine that the Memorial Day weekend brings and we forget the real meaning of this holiday – to honor the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed forces.  We want to say thank you to those brave men and women who died protecting the freedom we so dearly love.

Before the Memorial Day weekend crowd started coming in we took a quiet walk in the sunshine.  This pond is artesian spring fed and the swimming area will soon be full of swimmers.  Outside the swimming area will be people in canoes and paddleboats.

 

Along this line of trees about 9:30 in the morning the sun must be hitting just right because the whole shoreline is churning with the number of large fish jumping.  This is a catch and release pond, looks like they are well fed.

 

 

This trail leads through the trees along the White River, we can get in a nice mile walk up here. 

Another pond on the property is called “turtle pond”, I think it is obvious why.  This pond is also a catch and release pond, no swimming.  We think it must be fed by White River.  Not nearly so clear as the spring fed pond.

All of the sites in the campground are full this weekend and additional campers are out in the tent camping area along White River.

This jump pad drew a big crowd on Saturday when 10-year old grandson Kyle, his sister Mackenzie and mom and dad were here.  Kyle reported he had met one hundred new friends while checking it out (he might not have been exaggerating too much).

 

The Saturday night hayride was also popular.

 

The last couple of evenings it’s been nice to have a fire as the night got cooler.  One evening this little squirrel looked like he wanted to join us.

 

 

Saturday afternoon we watched grandson Kyle’s last soccer game.  They lost, but he made some good moves during the game.

 

Saturday evening we cooked hamburgers on the grill along with corn, potato salad and baked beans.  Kyle was the only one who left room for s’mores.

Later in the evening Greg and I had strawberry shortcake.  Memorial Day weekend wouldn’t be right without it.