Shannondoah Valley/ Skyline Drive June 2013

First let me say that this campground was the most crowded most dirty campgrounds we have ever been to and we wont be going back there anytime soon. When you go into the bathroom to pee and theres poop on the floor thats disgusting. However it did have some good qualities but the bad out weighed the good. They had really good funnel cake and snowballs and everyone was very nice.
We met my parents at this campground we arrived on Saturday and it was so jam packed full of people that we had a hard time getting through the craziness of people walking around. Our campsite was pretty small and we were right on top of our neighbors but they were nice and had a NY Giants flag flying so nothing to complain about them. This campground also had a pool, small golf course, a river you could tube down, a catch and release pond and about 50 rabbits running around that you could feed.

After most of the crowd left Sunday the campground was quiet and not as crowded. The problem was the campground was a good size but instead of having all the full hook up sites spread out within the park we were all in the same area. Paul and the kids got to float down the lazy river and I'm pretty sure neither of the kids liked it to much. After spending 80 dollars on stuff to do it they only went twice. I think the problem was that there were some rapids and where you were suppose to get out was really rough and they almost hit some rocks and a tree. But the water fall at the end was just so pretty. 

My sister and her boyfriend were suppose to meet us there for the day sunday but somehow they ended up at the wrong place and decided to go home because it was to late. That night they showed a movie in the pavilion, Second hand Lion, we sat and watched some of that and then went to the arcade. Most of the games didn't work so that didn't last long we made the best of it though and played a couple of games of air hockey.

So Monday we went to Skyline drive and took our annual pictures. We decided to have lunch in the park this year so I packed a cooler but the bugs were so bad I guess because it was about to pour that we really didn't enjoy it and basically had to keep moving and eat at the same time. It was pretty funny seeing all of us dancing around with our sandwiches and drinks. I'm sure we looked like we were crazy but the bugs were not letting up even though Paul scoped out the area and said it wasn't buggy. At one point Mckenzie saw some "tracks" in the dirt that I'm pretty sure was just where someone was kicking dirt with their foot and swore it was bear tracks. They were so funny and so excited I didn't have the heart to tell them what it really was. We had to basically inhale our food because we could see the rain coming as soon as we were all done it started to pour down rain and it rained the entire time we were on the mountain. Being on the mountain was what we were all looking forward to and we couldn't really enjoy it.

We went to Massanutten indoor water park the rest of that day and had an awesome time as usaul. my parents stayed back at the trailer. We left tuesday for Harpers Ferry I'm really glad my parents could come with us. They aren't really big outdoor people but we try to make them come as much as we can.