Life can get crazy!

It’s been since 2015 since our last blog. With kids getting older and more active when we have a spare moment it’s nice to just chill out. Now our kids are three years older yikes and able to give us a few hours I thought I’d start this blog back up. I’ll be blogging about the trips we’ve take and some of the bumps in the rv we’ve had. I hope you’ll enjoy and maybe also learn something along the way. Wait till I talk about our slide out debacle. Sometimes it just takes a moment to slow down. Haha!Safe travels everyone and stay tuned.Like us on Facebook at Gasoline and Marshmallows.

Driveway RVing

DRIVEWAY RVING

This weekend we decided to stay home and do some driveway camping. We had a friend over and her two kids they have never stayed in camper before. It was fun they came over about 7:00pm and we got the fire going for s'mores and just relaxed. We are having some construction done so the driveway is a little cluttered but we made the best of it. The campfire was actually the second we had this year at our home.

 The moms stayed up and the kids fell to bed during a movie I headed in to watch a movie and unwind from a busy day. 

In the morning we made monkey bread again which is really becoming a tradition at our sites. 

What so great about driveway camping?

First no fuel, you don't have to drive anywhere so you save on the expense of fuel. 

Second if you forgot something it's just up the drive way. 

Now I know we don't buy campers & RV's to stay home and driveway camp but sometimes you don't want to go far so what's closer than your driveway. We do love traving and seeing different places. Next time we'll all head to a park somewhere where the kids can swim and have even more fun. 

Safe Travels everyone

Graduation Stay on The Zumbro River

We had two graduations this year my neice and my nephew down in Zumbrota Minnesota. We decided to try out Shades of Sherwood outside of Zumbrota on the Zumbro River

http://www.shadesofsherwood.com/

We had heavy traffic on the way down which was ok the kids decided to take a nap and Jenn and I got talk on the way down. Just off of Hwy 52 down a wooded dirt road as you approach the park to the to the right is a big swimming pool with bouncy stuff in it which I heard is deep so you you can jump in it. As we pulled into the main enterance of the park there's the office and we noticed a second heated pool, a bounce house, mini golf, a bounce bubble thing and a ton of kids on peddle cars. The road in paved for most of the way and then turns to dirt, found our site which was all grass with a fire ring. We backed into the site so the campfire was just outside the door.To Jenns credit she guided me in straight & level.

 We quickly ran off to our nephews graduation. When we left the graduation we headed back and started a campfire and relaxed. We all slept in on Sat, when we finally got up we noticed nobody parked next to is so we kinda had a big yard to play which was really pleasent. In front of our site was a berm that lead to more sites on the river. My son and I walked down the the river and took a look at it. 

The River video

http://youtu.be/GpZ8BnN1m5E

At the end it was calm but as you walked up it ran faster and I noticed some site backed right up to it. I almost fell asleep standing there listening to it. We headed back and had lunch with the girls then we went to the park.

 I would've liked to have a place to sit. Still the kids had fun. My sister in law and our niece were coming over so we set up the outside kitchen (my kitchen ha)

 we were having Bacon Wrapped Chicken from the dutch oven. My favorite way to cook next to the grill. We ate the. It was time for s'mores!!! 

Then it was time to back up we heard bad weather was coming and knew that we weren't going to be lucky at night or Sunday morning. Man were we right, at 12:30 am the lightning & thunder was crazy the rain was coming down hard. I'll i could think about was that river until the lightning seemed to be real close. Not having bought a surge protector yet I decide to run out and unplug from the park. No air conditioning was fine with me as long as nothing shorted out....or fried. We were fortunate just as we were cleaning up the tanks hit full both black & grey. With the four of us we get two days on the tanks. Which we found pretty good. We still want to see how much clean water we use in two days just to experiment and see. We'll try it when we are at a full hook up place. All in all the weather held out till Sunday and stopped raining when we were headed back. I'm looking forward to the next adventure.. Two Rivers in Royalton MN.