2 weeks until our camping trip!

I'm interrupting the order of posting, but I'm so excited! Two weeks from today, we'll be headed to our favorite campground, the Illini campground at Eldon Hazlet State Park in Carlyle, IL at Carlyle Lake for a Memorial Day weekend camping trip. This campground has electrical hook ups at each site, shower houses with bathrooms, a pool and three playgrounds. Each site has a designated place for campfires. Click here: http://dnr.state.il.us/LANDS/LANDMGT/parks/r4/eldon.htm for more information on the park.

We send our reservations to the campground in early January. Normally, we go camping on Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend. We only made reservations for Memorial Day, because the State of Illinois has jacked up the rates for holiday weekends to $25.00 a night. I think we will try to go camping another weekend, maybe in June, before the weather gets too warm. We tried going camping July 4th week one year, and it was so hot. We were miserable.

My husband will go to the storage shed this weekend, pull out the camping tote boxes, and see if we need to replenish any items in the boxes or purchase new items. I know we need to purchase more string lights and we will probably need new batteries for the flashlights and the battery powered lantern.

It will be so nice to be in the great outdoors and enjoy the beautiful weather. As I write this, it is a cool, gloomy, rainy day in the metro St. Louis area. I checked accuweather.com and the high for Friday the 24th will be 74 degrees, and it will be sunny. I pray the weather for the rest of Memorial Day weekend will be nice as well. I don't think it will be warm enough to swim, though. (Whew!)

The next post will be the list for miscellaneous items needed for a successful camping trip. Until next time -

Happy camping!

Diane