Our campground for 7 months!!

On August 2nd, we moved to our current campground.  We plan on staying here through February.  I thought living in an RV in ONE place would be torturous.  So far, it's not torturous.  It's actually quite nice.  We have gotten 'settled' in the community.  We joined a homeschool co-op.  The boys classes in the co-op are Florida History, Astronomy, Geography, and Fun with Fruits.  Sage is in a Chess Club.  Scott is playing soccer.  We are taking Florida nature classes.  We are participating in a Florida history class at the library.   We are 15 minutes from Henry's parent's and sister's house.  We love hanging out at their house on the weekends.  We are 4 miles from the beach.  Our campground has a pool (which is the main reason we moved here).  We have visited the Orlando Science Museum.  We have farm field trip planned as well as a visit to an observatory.  We are also going to Legoland and the Tampa Aquarium really soon.  

 We are playing and learning and enjoying what life brings our way.  

You can barely see our truck and RV in this pic.

We nestled between the trees.

We have plenty of shade here! 

Both boys have learned to swim in this pool!

Walking back to our RV from the pool

We have since moved to a different site in this campground which we like better.  

Wickham Park in Melbourne, FL

Our first stop in Florida was Wickham Park in Melbourne, FL.  What a lovely, lovely place.  We stayed here from June 30th to August 2, 2014.  It is a public park.  For my Columbus, OH friends, you'll understand when I say that it's a park much like our Columbus Metro Parks.

There is about 400 acres of land which included swimming ponds, fishing ponds, baseball field, multi-purpose fields, amphitheater, archery range, equestrian barn, and frisbee disc golf.  When we were there, though, it was TOO HOT to do ANYthing outside.  We tried to play on the playground once, but lasted only about 5 minutes since it was not shaded.  (And there was NO way we were going to swim in a pond!)  The campground is all the way in the back of the park.

Ranger Office

One of the entrances to the park.

Baseball Field

The campground was located all the way 

in the back of the park. 

The drive back to the campground.

Bummed that we never saw any armadillos

in the park.  We have seen plenty dead on the 

side of roads, though.

We were surrounded by water. 

Never once saw an alligator.  

Drive back to the campground.

We saw tons of these guys!  

And tons of sandhill cranes.

And there we are!  

We had tons of space.

We never had any neighbors right next to us.

It was hot especially with NO shade!

We met some good people here.  

Here's Jake (in the middle of my boys).

We met him here at the campground.

He is a full-time RVer too.  

This is when we were getting ready to leave this 

campground to go to our next stop in Florida.

The boys were getting in all the play time they

could with Jake.  We were super excited just the 

other day to come home to find a note on our

door from Jake and his family saying that

they were probably going to be moving to where

we are right now.  Yeah!  We would love that!