You may be wondering..."where is St. Clawdale Park?" Well, it's not a place, but a city of campers built around one focal point...a campfire!! St. Clawdale Park is our annual Labor Day camping trip to wrap up summertime fun. Each year we travel to River Country Campground in Evart, Mich., 3.5 hours north of where we live in metro-Detroit. Sitting around a campfire a few years ago after we found this hidden gem of a campground, we decided to combine portions of each of our cities to form the name of our "city" - ST. Clair Shores (Maes'), CLAWson (Partin's, Nelson's and Maliszewski's), FernDALE (Chryslers) and Hazel PARK (Evangelista's). And so...St. Clawdale Park was born. Some might say...we had a little too much sunshine the day we figured that one out, but we like it! So much that a couple of years ago, Sally, Randy and I made a sign. :) Oh the time we had before children ;)
L to R: Mike, Andre and Christa Maes, David and Sara Evangelista, Austin, Diane, Tyler and Matt Chrysler, Sally, Audrey and Mike Nelson, Randy, Remi & Krista Partin...and Buckshot Partin of course :)So, as I was saying...Remi had her first trip to St. Clawdale Park. We arrived Friday afternoon and had a great long weekend, returning home on Monday, Labor Day. The drive south on I-75 after a long weekend is always fun with the thousands of other Detroiters, but it was well worth it. We enjoyed our weekend, but all good things must come to an end.
We hope everyone had a great Labor Day as well. Summer is over, but Fall in Michigan is the best time of year, so I plan to post a lot more camping pics in the coming months. Stay tuned!!!
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