August 16-19, 2007 Another Camping Weekend at Pioneer Park

This weekend, the temperatures were cooler and so we never even went down to the lake. We filled our weekend with activities we had not yet done. We went out for breakfast at Mr. B's, then headed to downtown Muskegon (sans my camera). We went through an railroad depot, which is now the visitor's center. We also got to see a train come through by the harbor, the kids got to be pretty close to it. We went for a ride on the trolley, which took us out to lakeshore and back. We got off the trolley and tried to visit an old fire station, but it wasn't open so we could only look in the windows - maybe next time. On Saturday, we went mini golfing and go-karting. We also took the opportunity to try to fly our kites - the wind was too gusty though - we could get them up but we couldn't keep them up. The kids had fun trying though. On Saturday night we had a visit from Uncle Shawn, Aunt Erin and Owen. Unfortunately, it started to rain and was a fairly wet night. NO campfire that night. However, we loaded into our camper and, believe it or not, we got all the children to fall asleep while the adults played some games - I think this was the first time this year that we really did that. It was a little soggy and cooler, but a great weekend none-the-less.