Spirit of the Suwannee Campground

We took a few days and went up to Spirit of the Suwannee campground in Live Oak.  It was a wee bit chilly since we were “so far north”. Live Oak is near the Florida Georgia border. IMG_8560

The place is famous for its music festivals so they have lots of areas for bands to preform.

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The first night it got so cold that the drips from the water hookup made a little ice tower on the ground.

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Our home away from home.

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Mom sent Dad to Publix for a few groceries and he came back with a new truck! This will help us pull the trailer so much better than the Jeep can.

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We made some new friends, they live near us and are the same ages. We had a LOT of fun playing.

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We went to a Pickin and Grinnin show. It was a bunch of people on string instruments and a huge sing along. I really enjoyed it.

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We tried fishing but I think it was just too cold.

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Mommy took this photo… kind of looks like Dad is breaking the rule on the sign but he was honestly just fishing.

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See…

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Mom and I went for a hike and discover a scavenger hunt!

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Must do scavenger hunt! IMG_8617

We had a lot of fun just relaxing and exploring at the campgrounds.

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We drove down to see the Suwannee River and I just wanted to sing the state song the whole time.

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Now back to that scavenger hunt. We had quite an adventure all around the HUGE sprawling park. There were a lot of clues to find.

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They even had a old time playground complete with hot metal slides and a super fast merry go round. I loved when Daddy made us go really fast.

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One mission we had was to find the Dragon Door. We looked everywhere for it and finally found it! It was hidden on the back of a building where we actually started our search.

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The proper hosts one of the largest bat houses in Florida. At dusk we went our to a field and watched thousands of bats fly out. The estimate is around 30-40,000 bats live in the bat house!  IMG_8658 IMG_8662 IMG_8665

Saying goodbye to our new friends was hard. Hopefully we see them again!

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In case I didn’t tell you, I spent all of my free downtime with a nice in a  book this trip. I am finally READING! I finished 2 books on the trip. Mommy said it finally CLICKED!

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It is Just WRONG

 

I am still going to speech class once a week at Leila Davis Elementary School. I really like my teacher. When ever I do well she lets me plan a level of Angry Birds!

Today when we were waiting to go back I found a few puzzle pieces on the ground. I could not find the puzzle or more pieces. All the pieces were from different puzzles and only two fit together. It was driving me near mad. I like my puzzles to be complete!

 

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Gymnastics!

 

I am so excited that I can go back to gymnastics now. The gym we were going to had a huge fire and just recently reopened and started up homeschool classes.

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I am really trying to learn how to do handstands.

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Every time I try my legs get a little bit higher.

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My coach, Mr. Grant, has me practicing them on the floor, beam and bars now. IMG_8545

I am working on my pullover on the bar as well. I almost have it. I can do a straddle on the bar now  too!

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After class I cam home and practiced tumbling around the house. Every bar I see I hang on. And tonight, Mom tucked me into bed and I said I couldn’t go to bed until I did all my stretches. I was doing bridges, tables, lunges and splits in my bed.