Camping at Black Mountain Campground

I so was not thinking when I thought I didn't need to bring my camera. I really wish I had taken it. We were at by far the nicest campground as of yet and it was still as cheap as the not as nice ones.

Our original plans were to have Alex work from home on Wednesday so he wouldn't get home so late from work. Well, my oldest kid, who has been sick since July 5th had been hacking up a lung. Alex decided I should take him to the doctor. I made an appointment at OUR doctor and the earliest they had was 3pm and was about a 20 minute drive one way. I was surprised how quickly they got us in. As it turns out he had bronchitis, so we got our RX and were on our way. We were out of there by 3:30. Then we had to drop them off at the drug store that was kinda out of the way so we could pick it up on our way out of town. We got home and then started packing the van, that took until almost 5:30 we were finally on the road about then. Then we had to stop to eat dinner, really the main concern was getting to the place before it was dark. It is hard to make camp in the dark.

We got to the campground at about 8:30, and were ready to camp at 9:30, meaning everything was blown up and ready to sit and relax. We purposely picked a site ON the river. It was really nice - 2 of them, new fire rings, and the bathrooms were less than 2 years old. They even had pay showers (though we didn't use them others did all day). Plus the campground host take their jobs VERY seriously. This person was constantly checking our bathroom it was ALWAYS clean. My absolute only complaint is the ones we picked were unisex only, so I was CONSTANTLY having to lower the stupid seat on the toilet.

I had packed for this trip, I knew there was NOTHING there. So I even packed extra ice in a cooler with some dry ice to try and keep it frozen. I had enough food for 5 days since we were SUPPOSED to leave on Saturday but our neighbor that was supposed to be meeting US couldn't leave until Friday and they were leaving on Sunday. The ice did for the most part stay ice until Friday afternoon. It was a big clump of ice by then, but fit into the cooler so it all worked out. PLUS they did sell ice at the campground (I was told they didn't have anything by the neighbor that had been there before).

Thursday we just stayed around the camp ground. It is a small campground http://www.cs.unca.edu/nfsnc/recreation/black_mountain.pdf
but one nice thing is you can hunt for your own wood, so Alex did that. Alex hunts for wood in the morning so we can play after lunch.