Camping at Matson's

Keith, Dolly, and I had a very relaxing weekend at Matson's Campground in Manistee. We got up there on friday around 2:00 e drove by Rothbury on the way. I could not BELIEVE all of the tents. Thousands of them. I tried to get my camera out but not in time to get a good picture. To me, Rothbury seems like so much fun. We're thinking about doing it next year.

Here is our campsite. Right on the Big Manistee River

Keith fishedI did a lot of reading (this is how I read by the campfire)We took a 2 1/2 hour tube ride down the river. Even Dolly made it! We were a little worried about how this would work but she did really good and seemed to really enjoy herself. She spent half the time on her dad's lap and half the time on mine :)
This was our tent's "maiden voyage" and it worked great! We used our credit cards points to buy it last fall. It's huge (compared to what we had been using). It even has a "doggy door" :)

Keith swimming with the kids

The river looked so pretty in the morning

We also bought a new camping grill. It worked great and we used it for several times over the weekend. Here I am making eggs for breakfast.

Dolly met a friend "Sophie"

Sis came to visit and went tubing with us :)

Probably the only bad thing about this campgrond is that the sites are very close together. Which would be fine if you went with a group and had a couple of sites in a row. We had really nice people on either side of us but we felt like we were on top of each other! We hope to get out camping a couple more times yet this summer!