Happy Holidays!

I'm behind again, but just wanted to wish everyone

Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season!

Hidden Acres Family Campground

Hidden Acres Family Campground in Virginia is open all year. They have about 10 sites in the front area that are used for short term camping, with the rest of their sites back in the trees. They have some sites for permanent residents.

We were in site #1, which is 50 amp (some are 30 amp). Our site also had a water hookup. We paid $271.34 for a week (7 days, get 1 free). We had Verizon 4 bar, 14 TV channels with our antenna. They have cable but we didn't hook up. We also were able to use their WiFi.  We ended up staying two more days, and paid $40.70 each for them, $41 with a $4.10 discount, plus $3.80 tax.

They have a office/store, outdoor pool, shuffleboard, mini-gold, volleyball and playground behind the office. There is a dump station and propane tank refill area in front. There is a laundry room and shower houses in the back area in the trees. There's also a couple cabins back there.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from our house to yours. 

On our way to Virginia

This is a mixture of the states we drove through getting to Virginia. From some nice straight, flat roads to squiggly hilly ones. 

From North Dakota, to Minnesota and family time, 

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on to Iowa (which the welcome to Iowa sign didn't turn out as it was dark outside). 

Next is Missouri

and then Illinois

and in to Indiana.

After that came Kentucky

 

and West Virginia, where we were just going to take the toll road and be done with it; but we took a wrong turn, took a different road and went on the squiggly roads again. 

and finally, Virginia

where we're spending time with family again.

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Heading east to the granddaughters!

With harvest officially done, we are finally able to head out and hopefully to warmer weather. Except, a cold front is coming through and I think it will follow us all the way to Virginia. So, with that in mind, we're trying to figure out our best strategy. We stopped in Fargo to visit with Curt's sister and husband. Then on to Minnesota for a family visit, but we need to figure out how long to stay to maybe let the cold front go through so we can travel behind it.  We got to town Thursday, with plans maybe leaving on Sunday as Monday night is pretty cold. Or, do we wait an extra day for it to get in front of us since we've got electricity hookup here.

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We went to visit my brother, Dennis, and his wife, Betty, who live about a half hour away. It was probably the first time we've driven to their place with snow on the ground!

We stayed busy with the granddaughters. They had a 4-H meeting Friday with awards given out from their fairs. After that they filled backpacks with supplies for homeless kids. Then our oldest granddaughter (12) got to spend a "moonlight madness" evening sponsored through the church for an all-nighter of bowling, games, movies and food. She took a friend along and they had a good time and stayed up all night and slept a good part of the next day. 

It was a weekend of school and 4-H projects. We helped make a fleece tie blanket and a pillowcase. 

And, Calissa wanted to play pinochle with Grandpa!