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We are going to Gavin's Point Damm, the last damm along the Missiouri River. It is outside of Yankton, SD and near Crofton, NE. The campsite we are going to is actually in SD but it is run by the Nebraska Corp of Enginneers so the camp site is actually a NE "town". Nothing but camp sites:D There are tons of nice and not so nice camp grounds in the area both on the NE and SD sides of the River and one of many Lewis and Clark Lakes that are above the damm. This is the area my family has always gone camping at. We love to fish off the rocks near the damm, and for those of the family that don't like river fishing off the banks but in boats instead, they can either go boating in Lewis and Clark Lake or the River. Or if you perfer bank fishing off of the lakes or ponds; you can fish in the lil lake near our camp site or in the Lewis and Clark Lake.
They have many hiking trails on both sides of the big lake, they have activites in some of the camp grounds for free for kids and families. They have bike trails leading into and away from Yankton, Yankton has a lot of activites to do during the summer, you can take a tour of the damm, the fish hatchery, an old church/monstary and along the lil lake we will be camping at, you drive or bike or walk down a ways along the river road the lake has a lil beach area to swim in.
I am just waiting for a couple of loads of laundry to finish up, then I can shower, dress, and finish packing clothes and personal items. After I load up the clothes, I can load up the dog, the dog food, and dog dishes. Then I can go around to the other animals and load all of them up on food and water for a weekend. Call and remind my dad to have him or my mom to come up and check on the guine pigs and birds at least Saturday evening or Sunday evening. And they will let my auntie and uncle know that we are gone so if anyone comes down the lane besides hired men that we aren't home and to check out what is going on.
The only down side of going camping this weekend is, we are missing a going away/good luck party for some friends of ours. Arwen and Molly are moving to Wyoming next weekend. Arwen is the brother of my friend Sebrina's hubby Arjan. Arjan and his family are from the Netherlands and are Permenant Citizens in the US. Actually Arjan, his brothers Marco and Arwen in a few years are going to become Citizens of the US. Their brother Andre is going to just keep his permenant status and keep his citizenship in the Netherlands like his parents did. Arwen is the youngest of the brothers and is the second one to actually leave his family. Arjan has left his family when he was in his teens and twenties by leaving with his bio dad the majority of the time and then the mandatory 4 years in the military. He didn't come over to the US until he was in his 20s where his brothers were still in highschool when the family moved over here. At least Molly and Arwen invited us to come visit with Sebrina and Arjan once they get settled. I think that would be nice because they will be living with in a few hours drive of Yellow Stone and the kids really like both Molly and Arwen. Okay it does help Molly's case that she trains horses and when they get moved back towards her family, she and her sister will be raising horses and she told her nephews, neice, and my kids that if mom and dad will allow it she will adopt some mustangs for them and break them and send them back with one of us when we go to visit.
Anyway, I am looking forward to going camping even if it is for 3 nights. I have most of July and the first part of August to try to get a week long camping trip in somewhere in NE or SD!:D I promise I will try and post some pictures of this trip since I never did get around to post pictures of my trip to CA! I have to bring my laptop with me because Randy is anal about posting to gasbuddy. The freak.
