Quakerwoods Campground - Oct 12-14, 2012

Another week of work, followed by an exciting camping retreat at Quakerwoods Campground in Quakertown.  Not a far drive, and really easy for us to navigate to since we are so close to the turnpike.  34 minutes from pulling the camper out of the driveway to pulling into the campground, can't beat that.

The forecast was looking to be a cold wintery feeling Friday night, but moderate on Saturday and Sunday.  We made up for all other campsite short comings with this trip and everything ran like a fine made swiss watch with regards to setting up the camper and closing it down.  Becky and I seemed to be right on the same track with each of us working together perfectly.  Not bad for our 5th camping trip!

Our Massive Site.

Quakerwoods is a nice campground that has the seasonals occupying the perimeter and a few weekender sites mingled in.  The main sites are in the center with easy access roads and all the low branches cleared from the trees.  In fact, 80% of the campground is gravel, since it is all sites and roads, with grass areas only found around the pond and soccer/softball field.  This is one negative for the kids.  Our site was huge, plenty of room for our camper, 10x10 canopy, two cars, and room for the fire ring and chairs.  The bathhouse was moderately tiled and nice, actually one of the better ones that we have been in this season according to Becky.

Great sign.  The things you see at Campgrounds.

Family Photo!! GoPro style!

Stayin warm by the fire and makin Smores!

Poor Madie, I had to put socks on her hands as mittens.  Here she is napping.

Friday night it was cold and damp, with a light breeze blowing in thru the woods off the field.  I ran the propane furnace most of the night to keep everyone comfortable and had the heated mattresses turned on too.  At 5am, the weather on the iPad said 26*!  Couple that with the raw damp wind, and we were cold.  It was best to stay inside the camper for breakfast and stay out of the wind till the sun really could get to work outside and warm things up.  Even then, we realized we weren't really prepared for the cold, not having gloves or mittens, or even pull over hats for the kids.  Everyone had hooded sweatshirts and fleece jackets, but even wearing both they were getting cold.  By mid-day, we decided to go for a wagon ride on the tractor since it was warming up a bit and it would get everyone moving. 

Ally catching one of the few fish today

Then we saw that the pond was being hit with full sun, and decided to give fishing a shot.  This way, the kids could have something to do and they would be out of the damp woods and in the sun, which would have worked better if the fish were biting!  We only caught two fish in nearly an hour, so everyone was bored and wanted to get back to the campsite.

The afternoon was filled with playing in the leaves, going for walks and playing at the playground with Grammy, and of course, having a great dinner and cooking smores on the fire!  We burned a good amount of wood this weekend and had a good time.  I recorded a lot of video which I'll assemble soon in the 'off season' to add to the blog.