1 Year Anniversary Camping

To celebrate our first year of dating, Rick and I headed to Ledges State Park for some camping.

Northern Water Snake

Rick finds a picnic table in the floodwater

Big furry rodent type animal - groundhog? 

Columbine

Our camp site

A visitor to our camp site. This Raccoon, Bandit, had "wanted posters" in the bathrooms warning campers that closing their coolers before going to sleep was not enough because he'd learned to open them. We locked our cooler in the car so this little punk wouldn't steal our breakfast.

Fishing at Petersen Pitts

Matt N, Kelly, Rick and I headed out to Petersen Pits for an afternoon of fishing. Rick barely got to fish because Kelly and I were catching bluegill and green sunfish so quickly and needed him to get them off.

Kingbird

Matt poses with a Bluegill

Rick and Bluegill

Kelly and Bluegill

Kelly's Bluegill

Erin and Bluegill

Green Sunfish

Erin and Green Sunfish 

Rick and a little Bass

MONSTER FISH!

Matt sticks a sunflower seed to his teeth and photobombs Kelly

Canada Geese and goslings

Canada Goose and her little goslings

Spring Break at Myrtle Beach

Rick and I went to visit Papa in Myrtle Beach SC for Spring Break. On the drive down, we stopped at the Wild Turkey Distillery.

Rick and I on the balcony of our hotel room in GA

   We also stopped in Nantahala National Forest to see some Appalachian Waterfalls!

 

Rick and I at the Briarcliff Acres Cabana

We spent a few days enjoying the beach...

 and did some golfing...

 with dinosaurs...

Rick and I in Papa's golf cart

And spent some more time on the beach.

 

For our last morning, we walked the beach at sunrise before packing up to head back to Iowa.