Dollface...CindyC

It's 4am and I'm finally caught up! This really looks like a Dream vacation.

I'm a morning person too.

TCD you totally ROCK! thanks for the update.

TCD. Can you use a Disney gift card on the cruise ship?

any more news?? I hope everyone is okay.

Looks amazing already!!! Can't wait to read more.

Thanks TCD for the nice comments. I'm so blessed with Ken's family! His Mom and Dad are amazing! He has an older sister and 2 younger brothers. Michelle (she's the one in the scooter--she has spina bifida, hence the scooter) She's married w/ 3 kids, 2 boys ages 14 & 11 and a 7 yr old girl. David is married w/ one child a 6 yr old girl, and Joey is also married w/ 2 girls ages 6 & 5. So lots and lots of little girls!!! All four of them all had girls w/in 13months of each other!!! how cool is that? So, we all try to camp at this campground the first week in July every year. next year will be the 5th year. And I look forward to it every year. The cousins all have such a good time together and there is always enough adults around to watch the kids and do lots of different activities (bike riding, crafts, going to the beach, walks, taking them to the playground, ect) it's truly a wonderful way to spend a week.

Bill, Yes Hampton does free concerts in the new Half shell and Fireworks on Wednesday nights! Salisbury does free concerts in the center and Fireworks on Saturday nights. We could see the Salisbury fireworks well from our site, but the Hampton ones, not so much... There was someone on Plum Island that shot off his own private show almost every night and those were wonderful from the roof of our camper.

I feel like I was there!!! Thanks Curt.

Here's a photo of the River. We are on the campground side and you can see Plum Island across the river. That's Ken in the water starting a water fight w/ all the kids.

Great update! made me laugh out loud! Can't wait to read more. :-)

Ohh. and here's a tease for those car fans out there.

our 100 yr old 1912 Model T Ford. :-) Ken restored it back in 1997.

Yes, if I have time, I cook a pie almost every night. (or we eat the leftovers if we didn't finish the pie that night. Ha ha ha--didn't finish the pie -- ha ha ha).

Hi Lou!

Nope, no amusement park anymore. You would be appalled at how the 'center' has changed! They are trying to revitalize it, but it's a lot of condo's and discount stores now. But a few vestiges of the old days remain. Happy's Fried dough and Lemonade (the best anywhere). Tripoili's Pizza, Cristy's pizza (which were you?) Joe's Playland, Carefree Arcade and Willy's ice cream are among the remaining places. The state reservation now has 484 camp sites and is extremely popular.

Thanks Sommer. The girls are part of the O'Halloran Irish Folk Dancers. It's a non-competitive troupe of all ages. They dance at nursing homes, hospitals and community events only. I love it and so do the girls.

We really had a wonderful week at the beach. It's always so great when the weather cooperates!

we'll be there for our first trip Aug 19-31! hope we can meet up! Good question, I'll be checking back for more answers.

Most nights you could find the entire family around the campfire.

Roasting marshmallows and eating a freshly baked pie ( Sat was Mixed berry pie, Tuesday was Apple/cranberry pie, Thursday was Pumpkin and Sat was Mixed berry again by request). YUMMY!!! We carry a cast iron dutch oven w/ us and I love to bake. ;D

The kids had a great time riding their bikes and doing crafts together.

The adults had fun to. Here's Ken and his brother's playing badminton with their dad.

When we didn't head to either the river or beach, the kids cooled off w/ the slip-in-side Ken's brother brought along.

We only had one so so weather day. That was the 4th. So we took all the girls to see "Brave" They all loved the movie and it was a nice change of pace and nice to be in air conditioning ^-^ .

Here's a photo that Ky took of Ken, Casey and myself on a lovely evening bike ride.

The river had a cool "point" here' a photo of the girls in front of it.

We had a great week filled with trips to the river then trips to the ocean (the river was a 3 min walk from the campsite; but the ocean was either a 15min walk or I just drove the caravan over to the parking lot). We didn't want to leave. But we were glad we had such great weather.

Here's the last photo I took of that vacation. We left the beach around 1pm and stopped for ice cream on the way home.

Thanks for reading and I hope this lets you get to know me a bit better.

Ok, now that I've got the photo thing down (so sorry everyone!!! ) Back to the report.

We usually camp at this state park over the July 4th week w/ my husband's family (His Mom & Dad, 2 brothers & their families & his sister and her kids). There were 5 campers plus one tent all in back to back sites. We had a great time!

The girls and I woke early on Saturday morning and went for a quite and peaceful walk along the river. The campground is right on the junction of the Merrimack river and the Atlantic Ocean. So, we have both the river and ocean to play in. The best of both worlds!

Then later that afternoon we went to the "real" beach and went swimming.

The air was hot, the water cold and a good time was had by all. We spent 5 hours on the beach. Sunday was more of the same. :-) We had great weather. Temp was in the high eighty's most of the week w/ a nice sea breeze.

Monday Ken and I had to work (the commute was about an hour for us from the sea shore). The girls stayed back with family and had a great day on the beach.

Ok, trying Photo bucket. Here's Kylie -she's 6 and going into First Grade. She also love Irish Step dancing and is just growing up so fast.

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This is my daughter, Casey

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Hmm... how do I make the photos appear larger in the post.. if I click on them, they are huge!

I'll introduce my girls. This is Casey. She's 9 years old, loves Irish Step Dancing and the color blue. She's going into 4th grade and just a delightful young lady.

Beautiful sunset on the beach.

We arrived Friday night after a very HOT ride (we took both the truck w/ the Lance camper on it and my 1999 Caravan). Both vehicles have no AC. yikes! [Ken will fix the air conditioning in the truck before we go to Florida this Aug.]

Relaxing after setting up (Casey is my oldest (9), Kylie is 6 and that's my mother-in-law).

HI!!! I love all the trip reports and it inspired me to create one of my own. This is a report of our camping trip to the Salisbury Beach State Reservation in MA over the July 4th week, 2012.

Hope some of you will read along. :wave1:

I'm in too! Great report so far!