Part 4 Vacation 2021 Highlights - Cedar Hill State Park

For our third and final week of vacation we drove almost all the way home and camped at nearby Cedar Hill State Park. We've camped there several times but always find fun things to do and see.  

We were in loop H in site 127. It is a lake view site with full hookups. We were delighted to find the site across from us had a trail down to the water and a beach we could launch the canoe from. Better still the site was empty and a neighboring camper said that the site is no longer used so we had access the whole time. 

Being close to home we were able to have friends come and visit Sunday afternoon. They brought their kids and the dad and John and the kids canoed and played while the mom and I visited in the RV. Later I joined them while the mom took a nap. 

Another highlight was hiking on Tuesday. It was a cloudy day and being Fall there were not many flowers but there were still interesting things to see.

 

There were lots of fungi. As you can tell by the next several photos, I really like fungi.

And still more fungi!

This photo didn't turn out as clear as I wanted. But it looks pretty anyway--sort of impressionistic.

I don't know what, if anything, was living in this tree but I thought the shape of the bark was interesting. (it's not a fungi as far as I can tell)

We also went shopping and voted (another advantage of being near home) and got a few things from home and called my brother for his birthday. 

John suggested we go home a few days early because the weather was expected to turn off rainy and cold for the rest of the week. He said since we couldn't go canoeing or hiking anymore, we might as well finish our vacation at home--sort of a mini "stay-cation." 

But after thinking about it I said "no". If we stayed, we really would still be on vacation. The cold weather just meant I could stay inside and rest and read without guilt. (Isn't that what vacations are for?) But if we left early, I thought, our cozy cocoon would be broken up and we would be thrown into the hyperdrive of unpacking and getting settled again. Resting and reading would be out the window, at least for a few days, but by then our vacation would be over.

So, we stayed and it was cozy and fun. Friday, our last day was sunny and starting to warm up a little. It was a lovely day to break up camp and head for home.