A wonderful weekend

The weather at the start of this weekend was wonderful and me and Ken took full advantage of it.  If you know me at all, you know I am a kind of spur of the moment do whatever pops in my head kind of person.  However, when I tell my ideas to Ken I get a long list of why it probably isn't going to happen because he is an anti-spur of the moment person.

For example this Friday I text Ken and mentioned we should grab the pop up and head to Pere Marquette and camp Friday night then go do some eagle watching.  Kens response was:
I haven't check the tires in a year
What about the bearings, I haven't checked them yet either.
What if it gets cold and the heater doesn't work
Do we even know what is in the camper and what we need to take

After the bearing remark (which I mean seriously who thinks about that stuff) I said forget it lets just head up to our camper in Cool Creek and stay there for the night.  So that was going to be our plan.  And as much as I HATE to say it, it was a good thing because our camper sustained some damage the night before and Tom called us as we were walking out the door to ask us to come up there and see what happened.  And sure enough, there was a limb stuck in our pullout.

 See this limb, it doesn't belong there

 Ugh, right through the roof.  

Kim and Tom are the best campground hosts ever.  Tom checks the campers about once a week and lucky for us he checked ours Friday.  He thinks this happened Thursday night during the rain they got, so it was caught quickly and beside messing up the paneling there was hardly any damage.  Tom helped Ken patch the hole and is going to put a new roof on it hopefully this week.  We got very lucky.

After Ken fixed the hole we went to Diamond Mineral for dinner then back to the campsite and sat around the fire pit.  As we were the only ones there, it was so peaceful and quiet I never wanted to leave.  But after having to go potty outside in the middle of the night I decided that maybe waiting till the campground opened before spending the night again wasn't such a bad idea  : D

Saturday morning we headed to Alton to do some eagle watching.  We got there at the perfect time because we saw quite a few circling overhead looking for breakfast.  And once again our lessons learned in Yellowstone paid off well, when you see cars pulled over, pull over yourself.  

 Majestic

I wish I could zoom this picture in because you would see that in a stroke of good luck I snapped this picture right as the eagle was coming up with a fish.   

 This eagles name is redemption.   Ever since we went to Yellowstone it has been the family joke that I can't see wildlife if it was sitting on the hood of the car.  All of our trips we have taken always go like this:

Kids and Ken:  Look an elk

Me:  Where?

Kids and Ken:  Look a bear

Me:  Where?

Kids and Ken:  Look an eagle

Me:  Where?

Kids and Ken:  RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!!

So after a few minutes of this Saturday Ken made me drive so he could be on the lookout.  And who saw this eagle sitting in the tree?  ME!!!!  While I was driving.  So phhhhttttttt

 We ended our day at the Audubon Center at the Riverlands.  I have never been there and have always wanted to go.  On Heron Pond there were probably about 100 Trumpeter Swans.  There were beautiful, and when they took off into the air, it took my breath away.

This was probably one of the better weekends I have had in a long time and I am very glad me and Ken got to spend it together.