Pere Marquette Trip 2016 - Thursday, August 11

We had told Keegan and Hunter that we would take them on a weekend trip in the new motor home.  Finally, the last weekend before they both began school, we were able to get reservations at Pere Marquette State Park near Grafton, Illinois.  We left on Thursday, August 11 and it was very hot and humid but we knew that the air conditioning worked so at least we could get into some place cool when outside became unbearable.

Carol drove the motor home with the boys and I followed with the car so we would have transportation the 3-4 days we were going to be there. It is about 3 hours from Decatur to Grafton.The site had both good and bad points.  Bad...it was slightly sloped and very hard to level  and in fact never reached that goal.  The good...under shade trees, 50 amp service, and right across the road from the restrooms/showeres.

Getting set up on Site 12 Pere Marquette.

Keegan had just learned to ride a bicycle and Hunter had gotten a new one for his birthday.
Keegan spent many hours riding the paved roads of the campground.   On one of his many loops, he made a new friend and they rode together.

Keegan has told me he will stop sucking his thumb when he is six  (August 20).  We shall see!

As I have said, it was hot, very HOT so after supper, we stayed in and watched a DVD before going to bed