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Ft. Pick'n It

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It’s Report Card time again and in celebration we planned a special camping trip at Ft. Pickens. The kids have really been itching to go  and the weather this past weekend was just irresistible. Now that 2 of the 3 mini Brandts have now mastered their bikes, we loaded them up among the 2 truckloads of camping necessities and headed out! (And yes, 2 truckloads is an absolutely reasonable amount of needed items for a night of camping…completely reasonable). The kids were *thrilled* when we arrived to see other kids roaming around and immediately set off to make some new friends. Even Gav enjoyed playing with the other kids as someone mentioned “Bey Blades” which of course made them instantly approved by Gavin. We cooked an exceptionally wonderful campfire dinner & roasted smores by the fire. We also taunted the kids with spooky stories about Geronimo (who was held at Ft. Pickens). The joke quickly became on us as I realized, well I don’t actually know anything about Geronimo …except that he was held at Ft. Pickens. Good thing I do know quite a lot about Google.

AB Warm'n up by the fire


Smore Sisters


We're big on Sharing


YUM


My favorite tree climber...AKA heart attack giver



Ahh..Nature


Heaven on Wheels!


My favorite Biker Gang...well + Sooter



Sunday we spent the day at Ft. Pickens. I kind of expected the kids to think it was boring, but they were really excited and had a lot of fun learning about the Fort. They actually asked to stay and go to the museum, but it’s still closed due to hurricane damage. I hadn’t been to the Fort in years so I enjoyed roaming around. Turns out you can’t actually visit the cell that Geronimo was held in because it no longer exists, but we got to see some photos of him which the kids were thrilled about.



Kid Size

If only....

Breaking out the "big guns"

 

After we’d done our share of exploring, we headed to Peg Legs for a quick lunch date. The girls really wanted to go to the beach (though we assured them it was much to cold to swim) so we spent the afternoon at the seashore collecting shells and enjoying our “Florida Snow”.



Heaven requested this photo...she thought this was SO clever









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Location: Gulf Islands National Seashore, 3500 Park Rd, Ocean Springs, MS 39564-9709, USA

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