Trimble Park & A Birthday

We just visited Trimble Park, another Orange County park (like Moss Park, where we've stayed twice).  Our campsite was absolutely beautiful and right on the lake.

That's the lake in the background!

Our fire ring

We had a fire ring with nice bench seats as well as a covered grill.  The campground was relatively small and everything (hiking, picnicking, bathhouse) was within easy reach.  We had 4 fun visitors to our site - I took all of these pictures from within our campsite using my telephoto lens for my phone's camera.  There were lots of aquatic birds as well that I didn't snag a photo of.

Same owl - in flight!

Yes this was a different alligator

Overall this was a wonderful, peaceful, beautiful, wildlife-full site.  Now, the bad...the other animals we had in massive quantities were aquatic midges.  These disgusting insects were swarming absolutely everywhere the first two days at the campground.  We couldn't open the door to the RV without letting a few in.  You almost had to breathe them in.  On the bright side, they were annoying but not harmful...but man were they annoying.  Fortunately the last couple days at the campsite the wind died down and the midges went away (related? I'm not sure).  With the midges gone the campsite was absolutely blissful.  The other downside to the campground was that the road was a *little* narrow, but we were able to navigate it without too much trouble.

The main event this past week was my sister's 40th birthday!  We joined her and her husband on a Royal Caribbean cruise to the Bahamas on the Navigator of the Seas.  Unfortunately the weather was a little on the cool side and it was very windy, but we had a lot of fun all the same.  And now that my 'baby' sister has turned 40 *I* feel old!  (For those of you that don't know that's a little bit of a joke...she's only 17 months younger...but still!)

We beat the escape room!

Chef's table - courtesy of my mother

We won Disney cartoon trivia!