Misty Mountain Camp Resort (Adults) Trip, Charlottesville, VA - Day 1

When? May 16-20, 2013
Where? Misty Mountain Camp Resort, Greenwood, VA
Cost? $45/night (Good Sam & AAA discount - 10%)
Hookups? Full
Type? Water, electric, & sewer
Site #? T-9
Check in? 1pm
Check out? Noon
Characters? Heather & Jon, Jessica & RH
Weather? 60s-70s during the day, 50s-60s at night, rainy

RH & Jessica invited us to come on this camping trip before we even owned our trailer. We originally thought we'd be getting the SylvanSport Go, so we had booked the slot for a pop-up. Oops. I called back to change our site to a full hook-up and to "link" our reservations as best as I could. The man I spoke with said he'd put us as close together as possible. I was a bit surprised that so far out the campground wouldn't have much availability, but we found out why while on the trip.

On May 15, Jon & RH left work early to pick up the trailers and then worked from RH's place for the rest of the day. I met them at RH's and we all had dinner together. Jon & I came home, packed, and went to bed. 

Thursday morning, we woke up, had breakfast, got ready, finished packing, and headed to RH & Jessica's. Once there, we packed up the trailer, parked the car, and started our journey to the Charlottesville area. 

It took about 2.5 hrs to drive to the campground. We stopped in the middle of nowhere to go potty and also had lunch. Jon & I paid for that later! (McDonalds... yikes!)

Random driving down the road picture

When we arrived at Misty Mountain Camp Resort, Jessica & I went to check in. RH came along too because he's never actually checked in when they've gone camping. Funny, neither has Jon. 

The trailers at check-in

After checking in and figuring out where our campsite was (V-9 as opposed to 9 - a little confusing for a second), we noticed that the sky was starting to get a little dark. We drove to the site and immediately got to work. We knew we'd have to level, so we put out the slide and got to leveling. 

Leveled!

View from the trailer next door

I got the power hooked up & the water started. Jon was done with getting unhitched and finished up hooking up the water. Right around then, it started to drizzle. Jon then started to put the stabilizers down. We could tell that it was going to downpour, so we got done what we could and got into the trailer... just in the knick of time!

Ducks hanging out in the rain

After the rain stopped, Jon finished up with stuff outside and we went to RH & Jessica's spot to go for a walk to check out the campground.

After the walk, Jon & I went into the camp store to pick up some toilette chemical (after having forgotten the spare at home... oops!). We looked around for a bit and then got ready for dinner.

Tonight's dinner was at Hamilton's in Charlottesville, VA. RH's birthday was today, so we were celebrating! Dinner was very good - especially the pea & ricotta ravioli with pesto that I had. After dinner, we walked around downtown Charlottesville for a little bit. We came upon Paramount Theater and saw that Lewis Black was going to be there the next night. After a bit of research, we found that there were tickets still available and decided to buy them when we got back to the campground. It was getting late-ish, so we headed back to the campground.