We planned on leaving in the morning as
usual when Paul got off night work, unfortunately my husband landed
himself in the ER with some stomach pain. After I met him over the
hospital and he was finally discharged he wanted to rest for a little
while before we got on the road. We were heading to Double G RV park
in McHenry Md about a 4 hour drive from Baltimore. We packed up the
trailer and were ready to go around 5 pm Sunday I only forgot the
kids helmets and when I went to unlock the trailer to put them in I
couldn't get the key to go in... Paul worked on it for about a half
hour until we finally gave up and payed $129 for locksmith to come
out and fix it in 10 minutes. I'm telling you our camping luck
really isn't the best I feel like almost every trip we take something
goes wrong and costs us money.
Its now 6 something and we're just now leaving we had a very smooth ride up there but we didn't arrive till 1030. We decided that when we go there we would just unhitch and level it and just go to bed and do everything else in the morning. When we arrived it was pitch black with no lights the lady at registration was nice enough to leave us a map on the door at the camp store. We found our site very easy and the neighbors that were already there jumped up and helped us get into our site no problem. We basically had some popcorn for dinner and went to bed.
Double G is mostly permanent camping sites, they have about 10 over night sites up front with no trees and the rest are permanent sites with decks and sun-rooms on the them. There also is pretty much nothing for the kids to do there. They had a small playground that surprisingly kept the kids occupied for the trip. They made friends with a family that was showing a horse at the fair who has a similarly aged son and a 12 year old girl. They don't have a pool or anything else going on there, it family owned and very clean considering. We decided to go to Double G because since we bough the fifth wheel we're pretty sure we no longer will fit in the state park where we normally camp. Double G is literally right next to the fairgrounds there and we decided to take the kids back to the Garrett County fair.
Monday we woke up and had some breakfast and got some more of our setting up done and just relaxed for a little while. Mrs Ann and Mr Lee met up with us around 1 and we got some firewood and ice cream and after that we went and played a round of golf. After that we just hung out at the camper and the kids played with the couple of kids that were staying near us. One ironically lived right by us and went to school with a couple of our friends, and the grandfather was a retired Fire Fighter (FADO) for Baltimore county fire dept.
Tuesday we woke up and Paul made everyone breakfast and then we set out for the fair. This is unlike any fair in Baltimore they have carnival rides and so much food and animal shows. They show sheep, goats, horses, chickens, rabbits, ducks, pigs, cows, alpacas, and donkeys, basically if its on a farm they show it. They even prance them around like it's a dog show or something, as a matter of fact that about the only animal they don't show. We sat and watched the sheep showing. hey pull the poor things around by their heads and then when the judge comes over the grab them by the necks and pull their front legs off the ground, it was actually a little hard to watch. They have kids of all ages to looked like from maybe 9 or 10 to maybe 18 or so, the judge gave out ribbons and ropes for the prizes. They also have rodeos, tractor pulls, lassoing, and a derby of some sort. We took the kids to get on the rides there once before and they had a ball, this year however they decided they didn't really want to ride anything, after we bought the ride all day bracelet, and just wanted to see the animals. Needless to say Paul and I were a little annoyed and angry, we walked around for a little bit and finally put up or hands and decided that we were just going to go back to the camper and stew. As we were leaving just before we got out of the gate they finally decided that they wanted to go on the bumper cars but by that time Paul had already reached his limit and he decided to go back to the camper for some alone time while me and the in-laws stayed and convinced the kids to not be boring. They rode most of the kiddie rides over and over until we decided we were hungry. Paul came and picked us up and we all went to a placed called Perkins for lunch, it was just OK and I most likely wouldn't go there again. As we were leaving Perkins we saw the ski resort Wisp from across the lake and noticed they had some kind of roller coaster thing in operation. So the Google master (Paul) looked it up to see whats it was all about. Turns out they have an adventure park open during the summer and you can zip line, ride a coaster from the top of the mountain, do a ski lift tours, they have water sports, and some kind of on land snow board thing. My phone died and I wasn't able to get any picture of all the things we did. JP went first on the climbing rope thing, they put a helmet and a harness on you and attach you to a rope and your able to climb though the obstacles. I would stay they were a good 20 feet up in the air. JP did really good until he got to the parts where they didn't have a rope he could hold on to. Then he started freaking out and crying, eventually the worker had to come out and help him because he was holding up Mckenzie and another man behind her. Mckeknzie on the other hand rolled right through it and wasn't afraid once, JP said he just likes the zip line.
After we were done at Wisp we decided to give the fair one more chance so we headed back to check out more rides. This time the kids were fine they didn't get on a couple that we showed then but at least they got on some. After they were done with the rides we checked out the rodeo, another special to be seen. This was the high school junior rodeo it was all kids from Mckenzie age to I guess 10. They did calf roping, pole bending, and barrel racing, I don't think I have ever seen a horse run full speed in person and oh man are they fast.
