Camping at Old Federal on Lake Lanier

Rain was forecasted for this weekend but we decided to camp anyways. This is a busy park so we had to make reservations a few weeks in advance. 

It was nice Friday night a lot of people were out walking, kids playing etc. We had another pull-through site and an even easier set up-we're getting better at this!

Our electric hatch has to be open in order to plug the camper in so we used trashbags to keep the rain out.

Saturday there were scattered showers. Breakfast was egg, cheese & turkey bacon sandwiches. We walked when it wasn't raining and went to check on my new work building when it started to rain heavily. We stopped for lunch at Zaxby's and brought some food back to my coworkers.

The rest of the day we hung out in the camper watching movies. 

The storms got pretty crazy that night, with lightning all around too. We left early Sunday morning because they were calling for more storms.

Camping By Ourselves!

My husband got a new schedule at work, he will be working Fri/Sat/Sun all summer so we won't be able to camp much--so we decided to go ahead and take advantage of his weekends off right now. Even if it's still pretty cold at night, it is nice during the day.

Shoal Creek campground on Lake Lanier is about 5 miles from our house so we deemed it to be the safest place to spend our first camping trip without friends. We could easily run home if we forgot or needed anything! Camping here is expensive ($48/night lakefront) but really convenient. 

We got here pretty soon after work, pulled into our pull-through site (love!) and set up in less than 30 minutes.

We were right on the water, it was beautiful at sunset!

We put some chili in the crockpot but it took a very long to begin to get warm so we microwaved it and then watched a movie and went to bed.

In the morning we let the dogs out and cooked breakfast--egg, cheese & turkey bacon sandwiches, a camping tradition for us.

We walked the dogs to the bath house and laid in bed most of the day.

Michael's dad came by and took us out in his boat for a sunset cruise.

The view of our camper from the water.

Because it was pretty cool weather there weren't many boats out, the water was very peaceful.

Great sunset...

Later we grilled some turkey sausage and made mashed potatoes and peas in the microwave. Michael's dad made us a bonfire and we made made some s'mores. We slept in on Sunday and left at a leisurely pace.