Another weekend camping...I could get used to this!

We jetted away for yet another weekend camping this weekend...this time we headed up to New York to check out one of the other KOAs that RAC (who owns our KOA) runs. The Newburgh/New York City North KOA is about an hour north of the city and is actually in a VERY rural part of NY called Plattekill. Everything there ends in "kill," I noticed; not a very pleasant realization for someone who already doesn't care for the east coast. :)

We did have a pretty good time, though. We had thought we'd drive into NYC and try to catch a show since that is where "we" began (yay for Chorale's New York tour!), but we had Jasper with us and you can't just board a dog in a kennel for a night without having vaccination records and test results and stuff...we don't normally carry those types of things in the car, so needless to say we were forced to find dog-friendly activities. We looked up Wesleyan churches online (not that church is a dog-friendly activity...we just thought he could manage in the car for the length of a sermon) and found that the closest one to us was about an hour north, so we dressed in our nicest camping clothes and drove up for the 9:30 service. As it turned out, the pastor there is the father of Nathaniel McCallum whom we knew from Chorale. When we "meeted and greeted" we explained the connection and it was like instant credibility...we were no longer heathens off the street who didn't know any better than to not wear shorts and t-shirts to church--we were friends of Nathaniel McCallum. His parents, Wes and Patty McCallum took us in like they'd known us their whole lives, inviting us over, taking us out for lunch, etc. We had such a wonderful time with them and for three hours did not hate the east coast.

On the way home we stopped and checked another high point off our list...New Jersey's high point was six miles off the interstate we were travelling on, so it would have been rediculous to not stop. It was a decent high point, and had this fun obelisk-shaped monument on top that you could walk up in...sort of like a mini Washington Memorial. We braved the 292 steps and were rewarded with pretty much the same view we had at the bottom of the 292 steps, but it was fun. We did take some pictures but will be putting them up in an online album with all the rest of the high points pictures, hopefully this week sometime.

Where in the world (ahem, east coast) will the Lails be next weekend??!??