The Training Wheels Are Off

I know I've been pretty quiet recently.  My apologies for that...let me catch you up with the past couple weeks.

A few weeks back we decided to do a 2 week "break-in" excursion to feel out the camper and make sure we had everything we needed.  We booked time at Tropical Palms in Kissimmee for sentimental reasons...that was the first campground we stayed at in our first travel trailer, and we love it there anyway.  We loaded up and headed down, and outside of a couple missing things (only 20ft of water hose when we needed 25 for example...doh!) and one washer catastrophe (always check the tanks before starting the wash) everything went well.  We swam damn near every morning before I 'went to work' at my desk in the bedroom.  The kids did their schoolwork with Karen and quite honestly everything went fine.

Our First Set-up...the Eagle has landed!

The new camper

We finally went camping in our new fifth wheel. We went to Tropical Palms. It's the first campground we took our old camper. I am glad we went to Tropical Palms because they have an awesome pool and their wifi is pretty good.

Minecraft

I love Minecraft. The world is made of blocks. I like survival and creative modes. In creative mode the point is to run around and create stuff like buildings, roller coasters, elevators, castles and more.

League of 7 book review

This book is truly amazing. I don't know how Alan Gratz came up with this stuff. The League of Seven was written in 2014. It is about a kid who wants to be a hero and finds out that he isn't one. His name is Archie. Archie is looking for his parents who were abducted by Manglespawn.  There is a secret society called the Septemberests. They are the only ones who remember that a league of 7 comes every 100 years and puts the evil mangleborn back to sleep. He then finds two others that are part of the league of 7. Their names are Hachi and Fergus. Archie the strongman, Hatchi the warrior and Fergusthe tinker. This book is about their adventures.

Blue

Finding a home for my chickens was the hardest thing about this trip. I was very sad to let them go. I gave them to a man that lives in the Christmas area of Florida. He can probably give the chickens a better life than I ever could have. He has more space and a big garden. He also has other chickens that are Blue's size so maybe she can have friends. But he can never love my chickens as much as I do.

Tropical palms review

I love this campground. TP is the first campground we ever stayed at with the old camper and now we can say we have been here with the new camper too. 

This campground has the best stuff. It's right next to Old Town ( I can see the sling shot from my window ). It has a dog park, a heated pool, mini golf, nice roads for biking, a kiddy pool, pull through spots, there is great Wifi, always other kids to play with, there are some deer here, a small lake with alligators and a new deck. There are gift shops all within a mile of here and even better it's a 10 minute drive to Disney from the campground. 

But there are some cons. There are ants, not a lot but they are in big mounds. The lake has no movement which means mosquitoes. The kiddy pool is very cold. And there is no water and very little shade at the dog park.

Overall, I would rate this campground