Indiana, Remington - Thursday, June 16, 2016 - Caboose Lake Campground

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR DAUGHTER-IN-LAW KIM!!

Our great week with AJ, Kim and the twins is coming to an end, we will be leaving here tomorrow morning heading to our site in Markleville, IN (daughter Amanda’s second driveway) where we will be until mid-September.

Our sight at Caboose Lake Campground was supposed to be 50 amp full service.  We got the bike unloaded and the coach backed in when we discovered the site they gave us was only 30 amp service.  We thought we could get by on that but even the 30 amp service proved to be sketchy in our sight and several around us.  The same thing happened in this area of the campground last year, I was hoping they would have taken care of the problem.  I understand the management doesn’t really think it is a problem.  Several of us had to relocate to sites that had better electric service.  This is us in our first site, I didn’t get a picture of the site where we ended up – I was mildly perturbed.

We have enjoyed watching Jackson and Braelynn participate in their summer activities.  Braelynn is quite the swimmer.  She is racking up a lot of first and second place ribbons this summer.  We got to see her compete a couple of times.

Here she is taking off for the 25 meter free-style event.

She won!!

Jackson says his favorite is baseball.  He’s a great hitter.

We also stopped in to see one of Jackson’s wrestling practices.  He is the one in gray.

The advantage of this park is that there is a nice lake and an area with floatation devices where the kids can play.  They especially like the hippo slide which is a 35’ high water slide.  This isn’t a good picture, but you get the idea of how big it is.

AJ, Kim and the kids came to the campground on Sunday to have lunch with us and then play on the “family fun zone activities” which included the hippo slide.  We read the brochure they gave us at check in which states the family fun zone is open on Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm.

To get them in and set up for the fun zone required the payment of $8.00 per person to enter the campground and a fun zone activities wristband which costs $15.00 per person regardless of age.  (NOTE:  Indiana Beach which is about 20 minutes away is $22 to $27 per person, looks like a much better bargain). We had lunch and then headed for the hippo slide.  We arrived at the slide at 1:55 p.m. and were told it would be closing at 2:00 – WHAT!!!  We were standing in front of this sign which appears to me to state it is open until 5:00 p.m. on Sunday – same as our brochure.  We were informed by an extremely rude teenager that if we had a problem we should check with the office.

The sign on the porch at the office also states the hippo slide is open Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. – what are we missing?

What we didn’t know was that Sunday was an “orange day”.  They have a schedule that is on their website that shows totally different times than all of the signs they have posted at the campground.  The days in orange on this schedule show the hippo slide being open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.  If grandma was po’d about the electricity you should have seen me after this.  I went to speak to the manager and was informed that she didn’t have time and she had no intention of coming out to talk to me so she sent out the same obnoxious teenager instead – bad move.  I’ve never written a bad campground review, but I intend to do several on this one, I just have to figure out how to condense my frustration into a short paragraph.

Jackson and Braelynn were oblivious to grandma’s frustration and had a good time in the lake and on the inflatables.  However, AJ and Kim received nothing in return for their $15 wristband fees.

Braelynn finally decided to take a turn in the dunk tank.

On Monday we celebrated our 7^th wedding anniversary and Kim’s birthday at Aydas, a wonderful Mexican restaurant in Rensselaer.

Today we had lunch with Kim’s parents, Dave and Danita Rodibaugh.  What a great meal – we even had strawberry pie for dessert.  It’s been hard to maintain our weight loss with all of this good food we have been invited to enjoy on our travels back home.

Greg had his annual checkup Wednesday with his heart doctor and a pacemaker device checkup – everything looks really good.  Both doctors were impressed with his weight loss and decrease in blood pressure.  I love him and this life we are living, got to keep him healthy.

Indiana, Remington - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - Caboose Lake Campground

On Sunday night we had a wonderful time at the home of some new friends, Bill and Bonnie.  They live in a wonderfully renovated old farm house that is well over 100 years old.  Bonnie is an artist and an antique collector so they have lots of one of a kind things to surround them.  Bill treated us to a ride on his “margarita wagon”.  It’s a flatbed trailer with four benches attached that he pulls behind his 4-wheel drive tractor on trails he has cut through the woods of their 150+ acres.  What a great time that was!  The grandkids got to take a turn at driving the tractor so we got smacked by some branches a few times.  We ended the evening roasting hot dogs and marshmallows over a fire – couldn’t ask for better.

Monday it rained really hard and the wind blew until there were whitecaps on the lake.  It was a good day to stay inside and do some cooking and cleaning.  Greg is interested in the baseball college world series so he didn’t mind being inside either.  Tuesday afternoon we stayed with the twins while dad and mom worked.

This afternoon son AJ, Kim and the twins planned to come over to swim, but the lake was closed for swimming because all of the rain we have had lately had upset the bacteria balance.  They did get to enjoy the “Hippo” water slide though.  I think I read that this slide was at least 35 feet tall.  Just climbing up the stairs to the top looked a little daunting to me, but they did it over and over.

 

 

This is Jackson coming down.

 

And here is Braelynn.

Then it was girls against boys in a water balloon fight, not sure who won but they all got really wet.

 

 

Jackson and Braelynn enjoyed the smaller water slide too.  Jackson soaked me as he came down.

 

 

Rain and wind came through just as we were setting up to cook hot dogs over the fire.  We hauled everything inside and still had a very good supper.  The weather cleared after supper and we were able to get outside to roast marshmallows for some s’mores.

This little guy ended up in my chair with me.  I wasn’t so happy about that but Braelynn was thrilled.

 

 

Going to miss these guys when we leave.

Indiana, Remington - Friday, June 13, 2014 - Caboose Lake Campground

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!

Five years ago today we were celebrating our marriage with lots of family and friends.  Those years have just flown by.  What a happy five years they have been.

We left Timberline Valley RV Resort this morning and after stopping for fuel and groceries we headed north to Caboose Lake Campground in Remington, IN.  We’ll be here for a couple of weeks to visit with our twin grandkids, Jackson and Braelynn.

We are really close to the lake.  I questioned whether or not we needed to invest in some wheel chocks.  Greg assured me we were fine.   The site is very nice, just one problem – I needed a “goose pooper scooper” to do a little clean up.  I saw a family of geese, along with about six little ones as we came in.  They were walking along the edge of the lake.  Obviously, they had stopped at our site a few times in the past.  A few plastic bags later, we were good.  Hope their stops here are few and far between in the next couple of weeks.

 

Jackson and Braelynn wanted to have a cookout in their backyard this evening.  For a while most of what we had was smoke, the kids couldn’t wait J.