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Well, we packed up the kids and dogs last weekend and headed north to go camping at Father Hennepin right off Mille Lacs Lake. It is a beautiful camground and one we will most certainly visit again.

We had anticipated rain but went ahead anyway in hopes of the weather man being wrong! (figured our odds were good). We did get one good night and day of camping in and some fishing, no we didn’t catch anything! Then about 2 PM on Saturday it started to sprinkle. We thought we would wait it out but after a couple more hours of it drizzling on us we called a camp meeting and decided we would pack it up!

It was nice to wake up in our own beds come Sunday instead of a muddy mess! Some pictures and a partial review sure to come!

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In the middle of May we took our first camping trip of the year. It feel below 40 degrees and was rainy bu we managed and had a great time.  We got checked in Friday afternoon, got camp set up and then headed to Austin, MN for Sarah’s sisters graduation.  Returning to our camp around 11PM we were in no mood to do much but find out way to our sleeping bags. Morning came and we almost didn’t want to leave the tents because of the temperature! After getting a fire going and the camp stove fired up we started to thaw out.

The rest of the weekend was spent hiking, exploring, searching for morel mushrooms, eating, a little fishing and of course making and eating plenty of smores.  We headed out Sunday and it wasn’t 5 minutes into the trip back and kids and dogs were sound to sleep. Check out our camping photo gallery.

Read our review of  Sakatah Lake State Park if your thinking about speading a weekend there.

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