a vacation in Yogi Bear trailer park....

Clark: Oh what the hell - it was fun anyway.

Clark Griswold from the movie Vacation

Well, the off color family is off on vacation and as you all know...you never know what to expect!!!!

This year, Big Daddy and I decided that we would not rent our usual house on Sunset Beach (a quiet low-key beach where there are no stores, go-kart races or water parks---just peace, quiet, beaches, sand and waves).  For some reason, that I can't quite remember right now, we decided that we were going to take a vacation close to home and see some of the things in our home state of Kentucky that we had not seen before.....little did we know what we might be in for....

We did some research and finally settled on renting a cabin in Western Kentucky near Mammoth Cave Natural Park.   We've rented cabins before and so we were all pretty excited about a cabin with a loft, bedroom and fold out.  Each kid brought someone...B. brought his life-long friend T. and of course Madi brought hannatard.  Big Daddy spent an entire day planning our menus and packing our food---since we knew we would have little access to the grocery store where we were staying.   

So, this morning we loaded up and headed to Jelly stone Campground to begin our adventure.

We arrive and find out rather quickly that our air conditioned cabin was none other than a trailer built to look like a cabin.  It is small...very small...there is no table in the cabin to eat on and when Madi and Hannatard fold out their sofa bed, one can barely walk around the bed to get to the bathroom.  The kids seem very excited to be in this "redneck" campground---not!!!!!!.  I mean it does have a water slide and a pool==what else could they want.  The property across from us has been all dug up waiting for the next trailer cabin to be put into place.

We have been laughing about it and I thought I could tolerate it all until the heat came later this afternoon.  When I could not get the thermostat below 80 degrees, I went and complained to the park ranger.  However, it seems they can't do much about adjusting it--they did offer to get us a fan.   I don't know what these folks are thinking, obviously they have never seen a southern girl during a hot flash......it could get ugly when I start sitting outside on the screened in porch in my "birthday suit".  

We have already had the one big adventure.  Big Daddy and I rode over to the cave and omg....as we drove through the country...house after house would just have little shops set up in their front yard---most even took MasterCard and Visa.  There were concrete yard figurines, geode tables where you could get so many rocks for so many dollars and of course my favorite of the day---I actually made Big Daddy stop---it was the bird house yard shop.  I couldn't believe it--but someone actually has an entire front yard full of birdhouses for sale.  Here in a bit, we're going to start a fire in the fire pit for s'mores---if the girls don't eat all the candy bars while Big Daddy and I nap.  The only real disaster so far has been when B. went to back his car up---yes he has his keys back---and he hits Big Daddy's car right in front of our trailer cabin.   There are lots of flies as well....Madi said it reminded her of that scene out of the Omen where the flies cover the front of the house.  Big Daddy has a pink hand fly swat and he's been doing some mighty fine killing.

Tomorrow we are off for hiking and a cave tour.  We also have a canoe trip planned.   Truth is.....when the off color family and friends take a vacation....one never knows what might happen---especially at a cabin trailer park.

B. and T. are out roaming for some trailer park trash......or at least that's what they indicated.

Have a great night....I'm sure you'll have some good stories coming about the

"off color family vacation"

Next year....I'm sure we'll be back at the beach!!!

Happy Tuesday and Hugs from 

the Yogi Bear Cabin Trailer Park in Cave City Ky.

our trailer cabin number

just pull off the road and make your selection...visa and MasterCard accepted!!!!

Big Daddy taking a break from killing flies!!!