Pedernalis Falls camping trip!!

For the last official day off from school of Spring Break we were able to get away to Pedernalis Falls here in south Texas. We fired up my dad's travel trailor and were off to spend the night "roughing" it. Can I tell you how much I enjoy camping this way! No tents to set up. No sleeping bags to drag through the dirt. No in and out of the tent zippers...it's just so nice. Anyways, we traveled about 1 hour to the north and checked into our campsite. We popped up the trailor and pulled out our picnic lunch and were off to the falls. What a beautiful place it was!! The kids and the dog loved the small pools and the rock climbing. It was a great sunny day with highs in high 70's. It was a bit windy, but it was still ok. Here's our family enjoying the falls part of the park.

After the falls we headed to the swimming area. They don't let you swim in the first 2 miles of the park where the falls are. In fact they have warnings all over about how fast the area there can flash flood. So we had to drive to a place in the park that was designated for swimming. I don't have any pictures from there because I forgot to bring the camera there. It was just swimming in the river. Jagg especially liked this part as he was able to jump into the water and swim around. The kids floated down the river a few times and found a swimming hole that allowed them to swim a bit. Our time there was cut a little short when Jagg pulled Austin over and he skinned his knee on a rock that was sticking out of the sand. So we had to trek up to the car and use our handy dandy first aid kit to patch him up. From there it was back to the campsite to change our clothes and do a little hiking. David and the kids walked the nature trail for a while while I tried out the queen size bed in the trailor. While they were gone and the night came it started to get cold. The wind that had been blowing all day had blown in a cold front and the temperature dropped fast. Again, I can tell you I like "camping" in a trailor. No wind flapping the tent all night and a handy heater that kept us warm. We did brave the outdoors for our campfire and smores before we retired for the night. Here's the kids a smores:

And to end our camping trip we were up at 6:30am for some eggs and sausage and donuts and breaking down camp to get Austin to his soccer game at 8:20am. Now that's another story...so cold. Austin scored a goal we didn't get to see. The team won and both boys worked by refereeing a few games and so forth. A typical Saturday during soccer for the Smith family....we're loving it!!