2-25-11 Friday Sam Houston Jones State Park LA

WOW, 2 days just flew by !! After I left ya'll the other night we heard  strange sounds coming from right outside the window, so Heather grabbed a flashlight and started looking around the campsite thru the window. Two rather large sets of eyes stared back !!!  What could THAT be??  Just a couple of racoons checking the campsite for scraps !! Really BIG racoons.. Later that night I stepped outside for some air and saw what I believed to be a fox running thru the camp.( heard a great story 'bout feeding the wildlife..little boy decided to break the rules,,sneeking food to the ducks at swamp edge, along came a 'gator and ate the duck !!! LOL Lol lol !! Oh well, I thought it was funny :) ) This morning we were visited by Mr. duck, he swims in back of the campsites looking for handouts several times a day. No alligators yet but I wouldn't be suprised to see a few in the swamp, during the day all the turtles come out to sun themselves.( my buddy Trapper would love this!) All the cypress trees are covered in Spanish Moss and it's beautiful and creepy at the same time. At night you can hear the frogs and other critters sing their songs. This morning I got tired of the limited TV via rabbit ears so I set up the satellite dish and now we've got 125+ channels of advertisements instead of 7, isn't technolgy wonderful??  Rained last night but the day was sunny and 75F. We cooked out over a bonfire and when it started to cool down we came in and watched commercials :) Met our Park hosts today and they are great people, from the mid-west. He's a retired Railroad worker and they've been camp hosting all over the USA.  That's something we're getting interested in so we picked up a lot of info from them.. The park certainly filled up this weekend, as a matter of fact people are still pulling in now (10:30 PM) ..We'd definately come back here , the park wi-fi works great and it's a great place to ride bikes and hike. there's miles of hiking trails and no big hills to wear me out. This Park even encourages you to colllect the downed wood for bonfires, that's something that was a big no-no in Texas ( even though their parks looked "ruff" from all the dead wood laying around).. Got to chat with some friends on FB tonite which I always enjoy.  We've decided to make a run for Mississippi to get to "our" Hollywood Casino in Bay St Louis and Magic River Campground where we stayed last fall..So we only will have 1 more Louisiana stop for 1 nite. Don't know if we'll update til then so REMEMBER, LIVE YOUR DREAMS AS TIME GOES BY QUICKLY..Charlie&Heather