Bwaaaaaaaaarrrrp

That’s the sound the giant bullfrogs make late in the evening at Autumn Lakes Family Campground in Sunbury, Ohio, where we spent Memorial Day weekend this year.  Autumn Lakes is a terrific campground, by the way!  It’s reasonably priced ($20 a night for our tent site), and the family who owns it plans a lot great activities that are available to campers.

We checked in late Saturday evening – after 9:00 – and while we were setting up our tent by moonlight, there was a pretty good country music band playing that could be heard throughout the campground.  Sunday evening our friends joined us for a very rainy cookout, and their daughter enjoyed an animated kids’ movie at the shelter house. We saw other kids enjoying a hayride, and there was also a playground available, horses, and a little camp store with a pool table and good prices on all the staples, in case you’ve forgotten anything.  (The store also sells firewood – only $3 a bundle – and bags of ice for $1.50, both of which can be delivered right to your campsite!)  But all the best parts of our campout were free of charge – the families of geese and ducks that entertained us while we fished, the chubby bullfrog that spent the weekend in the water by our campsite (and bwarped all night long!), and a relaxing two days spent getting some sun and taking it easy.  It was a Memorial Day to remember.