Camping at Carlyle

This weekend we went back to Carlyle Lake to go camping (this is one of favorite camping spots). We took my niece and nephew also with us. The kids all had a blast. We got down there Friday evening and the kids spent a lot of time running around and playing. On Sat. morning the kids all went down and saw a snake show put on by a man from Conservation. Adriana made him well aware that she didn't like snakes. He bet her he would have her touching a snake by the end of the show, but he was wrong. My little girly girl still wanted nothing to do with it. Jacob was holding it by the end and we even got Chris to touch one. We were going to do a nature hike they had scheduled, but it was really humid there so we spent the best part of the afternoon in the pool. We ended the night with making smores, a camping favorite. Then of course had to head home on Sunday which is my kids least favorite and they love to express that. Here is some pictures from the weekend. The first two are of the kids playing baseball by the camper. We parked next to the playground which also had a huge open area where the kids could run around and play. Here is a picture of Adriana and Jacob patiently waiting for the snake show to begin.
Here is the guy from the conservation department showing one of the snakes he has.
Here he is bringing the snake over to Adriana. As you can see he is loosing the bet, she is definitely not going to touch it. You can see the crowd of people watching her to see if she will touch it.

Jacob was the brave one and touched both snakes he had.

Chris, who is terrified of snakes, even sucked it up and touched the snake. Andrew wasn't too sure about it and preferred just to watch daddy do it. Jacob got even braver and decided he would actually hold the snake. This is a black rat snake (I think). Its the snake that will typically live in an old barn or garage. It lives off of eating mice.
Even Joey was brave enough to touch the snake. I take that back, the snake was brave enough to let Joey touch it :) I think if Joey would have had his way he would have been trying to eat it!
Here is all the kids piled on a chair playing a game that Kaitlyn had. Isn't so sweet how they all get along so well!!!!

Here is all the kids piled onto the bunk beds. No, this wasn't exactly how the all slept!
And here is Joey enjoying some of the toys outside. He did get to have a little fun over the weekend.