Thursday, October 20, 2011

Camping on the plains of Auburn

(Picture heavy post)

This trip will go down in the books as one of my favorites. As previously mentioned, this past weekend we loaded up the kids in a rented camper and headed towards the plains of Auburn University. We will always feel a tie to Auburn being alumni and having lived there for four years; it was refreshing to be back.

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The weekend was filled with lots of tailgating enjoying the PERFECT weather that Auburn had to offer.

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This was our home for the weekend - "Chateau". If you ask Allie what her favorite part about the weekend was, she will answer climbing on top of the camper.

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It was tight quarters, but the camper was nice. The kids slept in, what I call, the overhang.

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And here we have the view of our master quarters. The bed was surprsingly very comfortable and we all slept great.

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We even got to hang out a bit with some old friends. Good to see you J (and B not pictured).

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We happened upon Aubie and the band as we were walking to the stadium.

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The game was a packed house. (And no, this guy never sat down.)

I was a little dissapointed we didn't get to all sit together...but it was nice sharing the game experience with Allie. She was really reserved at first and was looking around the stadium with an open jaw....taking it all in. Once the 2nd quarter rolled around, she was shaking her pom pom sining along with the songs/Auburn cheers. She told me her favortie part of the game was watching the cheerleaders.

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Two nights were spent at Auburn and our third night was spent at Chattahoochee Bend state park in GA where we enjoyed more family time hanging out by a campfire, cooking out, playing board games with the kids, and taking walks down to the Chattahoochee.

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Even though this was our first experience renting a camper, I hope it will not be the last. Until next year Chateau....

1 comment:

Tracy Williams said...

Yea! Excited to see these pics today. What a fun time you guys had!