T.R.O.M.

The 2011 camping season has officially started. And I am just so happy about it. I don't like the months of December, January, and February. They are dark, cold, and we don't camp. But once March hits.... it starts to warm up a bit, stay light longer and camping season for us has started. We got TROMotized this weekend at T.R.O.M. Which stands for The Rides Of March.

The camp out is in Atkinson, NC on a river swamp. The weather was beautiful and 69 degrees Saturday.

The hubs, my Babe, cooks a lot when we camp. Which is an awesome plus because I hate to cook. Here he is cooking up some breakfast Saturday morning. I think these were the hash-browns. Yummm.

I don't have the official 'bus' count yet, but there were more then 27 there. This Winter my Babe installed a big screen and mounted the DVD player into the cabinet. Little Jo, pictured here in the front seat loves to watch movies on the way there and back home. We watched "Monsters vs Aliens" Saturday night curled up the bus bed which is so cozy and warm.

They had a big game room at TROM. With air hockey, a pool table and a ping pong table. Little Jo lived on the air hockey table all weekend.

I got lots of stitching done. Doing my two favorite things.... camping and sewing.

Here is a photo of our bus at night. For Christmas my in laws gave me some twinkle lights shaped like little buses. Perfect. They were so cute hanging up. TROM had a band there Saturday night too, but I didn't get pictures of them. I stayed back at the bus while my Babe went to listen to them by the camp fire. He said they were great!

TROM had some cool little boats available to take a ride in.

Dinner and door prizes Saturday night. We won a cool wooden VW sign. Little Jo wants to put it in his room. And those are cooked oysters on the table to the right. I didn't eat any.

Jaws ran great to the camp out and going home. A great way to start the camping season! And on the way home we stopped by to see family, my Babe's family. Here he is with his granny. We were so happy to see her up and out.

NaturalBus 2010

We arrived at NaturalBus which is in Natural Bridge , Va on Thursday evening. This is an annual Full Moon Bus Club campout that is pretty big , hot and crowded every year. It's one of the favorites to most.
I had been working on Chris's quilt since Oct of 2009. It's a reproduction of an old quilt he has had since college. I finally got to give it to him. :o)

Here are some of the girls ( really just a few). This was at the end of camping Sunday. Everyone was packing up and leaving.

This is the heart of it. Very packed and crowded. It was a maze to get to your own bus and I am not kidding. If you took a wrong turn you would end up at a dead end and had to turn around again and find your way out. By Saturday evening you pretty much had the maze memorized and could get in and out pretty good.

This is Jonah in his cot. He sleeps in a cot over the front seats...

Here is "Tent City". A lot of us put our 'pop up' tents together and make a huge area that is under them. It helps with shade , because it's about 1000 degrees there. And if it rains we all have lots of rooms to move.

Another view of "Tent City".....

Shelby had WiFi there. :o) Happy girl. But she does have friends there too that she has been hanging out with and growing up with for 7 years now.

The pool to cool off. The pool was a life saver and so fun.

Our annual Yogi Bear picture. I have gotten a picture of my children with Yogi Bear every year we've come. Aren't they cute!

Pocahontas State Park, Va

It has seemed like forever since we've camped. Our sweet bus has had a few problems so we had to miss 2 campouts. But 'Jaws' is on the road again. We decided to just do a quick overnight near home campout with friends of ours. Here is Dawnn pulling in. Their bus is named "Beach Bus". Can you tell she is so happy to be coming to camp?!!
Here we are together. " Jaws" and " Beach Bus". Setting up camp.

It's so good to be outside in the beautiful weather having 'special' lemonade. LOL

After dark, it started drizzling a bit , but we had the canopies. Lots of food / snacks / and drinks.

The boys roasting marshmallows. Yummy.

We pulled the teardrop so Jonah could have a friend come camp with him. We slept in the bus, they slept in the teardrop. Nice and snug, like bugs in a rug.

It rained, poured all night, which actually helps us sleep so good. But the next morning the camp was flooded. I let the boys play around in the water before we packed up and went to Dawnn and Scott's to make breakfast there.

I had to get a picture of my baby girl brushing her teeth. :o) Love you, Shel.

Packing up in the wetness. Not fun, but we did have so much fun camping.

Granny Grose's Buses 5

We just got back today from camping....so fun. We camped up in Breavertown, PA. At Grose's Campground. There ended up being 72 VW Buses there. :o) And around 5 or 6 VW beetles. Two bands played, one Friday night and the other Saturday night.

Here is a picture of 4 buses. ( none is ours.) We just park where ever we can find a spot. We usually try to park next to the same people we always park next too because we have all become such great friends.

My hubby found a little friend. ( no harm was done to the snake) Jeremy let a bunch of the kids touch him then took him back in the woods and let him go. You should have seen him trying to catch it, it was so funny. That snake was MAD and Jeremy looked like the Crocodile Hunter jumping around it.

Here is the youngs that camped with us this weekend, Ashley. She is 5 months old. Not a big deal .... BOTH my children have been camping since they were 3 months old.

There was a cool little spring and pond in the woods. Jonah and his best camping buddy in the world caught tadpoles.

Here they are again in our bus wait for me to cook them up some hotdogs for lunch. Notice the back of my curtains?? The front of my curtains is the Heather Ross 'VW bus' fabric. :o)

It rained a bit Saturday night, but other than that, the weather was wonderful. It took us 6 hours to get there and 8 hrs to come home. Only because we took the scenic route back. We stopped in a flea market on the way home and I found myself an antique pincushion. I collect them.

Next Year will be Granny Grose's 6.

first post

Since we camp a lot I figured I would start blogging about our camping trips. We will be camping this weekend in PA @ Granny Gross's. More to come about that later.

Here is a photo from our last camping trip. We camped at Picture Lake in Va. This was the 1st time we had camped there and probably the last. The race track was right beside the campground so we had to listen to engines revving all day and night. But we had a great time anyway.
Here is our bus we camp in. Her name is 'Jaws'. She is the gray/blue one.

Very excited about my new camping blog, can't wait to post about our trip this weekend. :o)