Hocking Hills State Park

We decided to go camping last weekend. We got some camping gear for our wedding and we were excited to try it out! The leaves here are starting to change colors so we went to a state park about an hour away that a friend had recommended to us. We got there just in time to set up our tent as it was getting dark. It had rained all day Friday, so it wasn't as packed as we thought and we were able to pretty much have two sites to ourselves. It was perfect!

Curtis cooking his s'more.

Curtis loves that our air mattress fits in the tent. And yes... we used it. Best sleep camping I've ever had!

This is our dutch oven that Brian gave us for our wedding. We made apple crisp. Our coals ended up being a lot hotter than we thought and it cooked WAY faster than we thought it would... so we may have burnt the outside of the apple crisp, but the middle was delicious. :)

Saturday we went to the trails to do some hiking. Our 3 mile hike turned into a 6 mile hike when we realized half-way that we took a trail that looped around and half of the trail was closed...so we walked back the way we came.

The first thing we saw were some beautiful waterfalls.
Who would've known these were in Ohio?!?!?

This was a beautiful lake that we encountered on our hike. We loved how the clouds reflected in the water.

How cool is this??

Old Man's Cave

These pictures really don't do it justice of how incredible these rock formations were.

Lesson learned: Make sure to look at all camping gear and clean it before leaving home. Our pizza maker had rusted on the inside and we didn't realize it until opening it up to make dinner.... so this is the result...Curtis using a pan to cook pizza sandwiches! Good thing we were prepared and brought a pan and utensils! They actually turned out to be really yummy.

This was probably one of our favorite weekends we've had since being married. It was so nice to get away and just enjoy being together without any schedule or to-do list. We spent hours in the beautiful outdoors and were reminded of the many incredible creations that Heavenly Father made.