Camping in the Adirondacks

Over Labor Day weekend this year, we decided to take another camping trip up into the Adirondack Mountains.  We got off on our little get-away on the right foot.  But then it got a bit rough.  After making the 4 hour drive to our campsite...10 minutes from getting there, Zoey warned us that she had to go potty and that her tummy hurt, we told her to just wait that we were LITERALLY a few minutes from the campground and for her to hold it (which she can usually do).  We got the campsite and I went to pull Zoey out of her car seat, when a nice little "aroma" starting coming out from underneath her...yep, you guessed it...she went diarrhea all in her panties, all onto the carseat = awesome.  I told her to stay put so I could go get her a change of clothes, I went around the back of the car, opened it up, looked inside the car and then it hit me....we FORGOT the girl's suitcase at home.  FORGOT!  How could we FORGET our kid's suitcase, ON a camping trip, with DIRT, WATER, MUD, and anything else they could get into that would REQUIRE at least 2 changes of clothes in a day.  Luckily, I packed Rhett's things with ours, so I manage to put on some of Rhett's sweat pants onto Zoey and made her wear a diaper since we didnt have any underwear.  After a minor freak out of leaving the suitcase, I drove to the front of the campground to ask where the nearest Wal-mart, Target, whatever was.  He said the closest one of those is 76 miles away (one way might i add).  Mike told me to just go, that we needed clothes....but it was getting dark, and I was not about to drive an hour and half ONE WAY on dark, windy unfamiliar roads with no cell phone service.  We decided to wait it out that night, and take off the next morning in search of some clothes for our girls.

The next morning, to make matters worse with forgetting the girl's clothes at home, it decided to downpour on us all night long and all morning.  The way this camping trip was starting off was not restoring my faith in camping, considering I am not a big camper.  After a few hours of being rained on, we decided to load the kids up in the car to get them out of the rain and venture into Lake Placid which was only about 30 minutes away..I was quite embarrassed walking around Lake Placid b/c the place has a "Park City" type of feel--very touristy and has some higher end shops and stuff.  So here are the Turok's tromping around in nasty, sweaty, very wet camping clothes around Lake Placid.  Oh well, whatever.  Thankfully though, we were able to find a Gap Outlet where we got to blow about $80 bucks on Gap labeled sweats for our kids to go camping in...but hey!  We were just grateful to find at least ONE store that had kid's clothing in it.   

Lake Placid had a lot of fun, touristy type shops.. here is Rhett "mountain men-ing" it up

Did I mention it was raining all morning long??  

The girls...Zoey was being a little uncooperative.  

And since Lake Placid is an "Olympic Town", we had to get a picture inside of a Bobsled...gotta love the Budweiser advertisement there...but hey!  Its a bobsled!

We stayed at Fish Creek Campground in Saranac Lake and it was beautiful.  We had a waterfront campsite with the PERFECT beach area for the kids to play in.  But since we forgot their suitcase, the girls got to play in the water wearing just their underwear...

Rhett & Addison playing

Hanging out, eating chips

The boy and his Tonka

Smore's time

Daddy and Zoey cooking some marshmallows---Zoey was mad about something

Her face says it all....

This campground was great for kids...it had a playground and a decent swimming/beach area

Addison

Zoey

Rhett throwing rocks

Playing with sticks

Playing in the water

Rhett throwing more rocks

These 2 are best buddies...Addison & Rhett

Group hug...love these kids

The girls being girls

Overall we had a good time.  The trip started out rough, but after we found them some clean clothes and got back to the campsite, the weather turned beautiful and we had perfect weather from that point out.  We will definitely be doing it again next summer...hopefully remembering the suitcase this time  :)