How to build your own camper

I stumbled across this website today...

http://www.mybigadventure.com/index.php?action=Build-A-Camper

It's instructions for building your own camper van. With pictures. I like pictures.

I thought it was cool, so I thought someone else might think it was cool too.

From this, a 15 seat passenger van...

To a camper van with bed, kitchen, table...

Christmas in September

What a great time. There was singing. And Santa made a visit. We topped the night off with some karaoke.

You can see the rest of the photo's here

http://picasaweb.google.ca/lahaverivercampground/ChristmasInSeptember

Merry Christmas

HOHOHO



It's Christmas at the campground this weekend.

*Photo taken from http://www.vintagetraveltrailerart.com/

Trailers get decorated. Santa makes a visit.

For kids / adults that would like to participate in the gift exchange, please supply a gift for the category that you fit in. child boy / child girl / adult man / adult woman . There is a $5.00 limit on gifts.

The festivities start in the shelter at 7:00 pm

Labour Day Weekend

What a great weekend we had. The weather was spectacular. We had a full house of campers. This place was hoppin' hoppin'.

On Saturday night we had the Miss Lahave River Pageant.

Here are all the contestants.















Here is the winner...

And our runner up...

After the pageant there was the variety show.

On Sunday morning we had the horseshoe tournament. Art and Dwayne won first place and Ross and Rodger took second.

We ended the weekend with a fantastic fireworks display.

If you would like to see more pictures from the Labour day weekend, here's the album on the web...

http://picasaweb.google.ca/lahaverivercampground/LabourDay#

Labour Day Weekend

I had a request to post some information about the long weekend, and had a couple of things to post myself, so here it is. All in one post.

On Sunday there is a Children's Variety show. Apparently in years past this ran concurrently with the horseshoe tournament. This year the variety show will be held after the horseshoe tournament. On Sunday.

Which leads me to my next point. The horseshoe tournament is on Sunday, NOT Saturday as I have previously posted. I'll have to go through my emails and correct the information I sent out. Oops.

Also, we have had a few cancellations and we have also added 7 more unserviced sites. So if you are interested in camping with us next weekend or you know someone who is, then give us a call. (902) 644-2654.

And to recap the activities next weekend.

Friday night - 7:30 pm - Bingo
Saturday - There is no bingo this afternoon.
- 7:00 PM - Adult Variety Show
Sunday - 10:00 am - Horseshoe Tournament
- BBQ Hot Dogs
- Childrens Events
- Fireworks at dusk

And if you are still reading, The Kevin Beanland band is playing tomorrow night (29th) in the Shelter. So come on out and listen to some music.

Hurricane Bill - Power outage

Just giving everyone a heads up that might read the blog that the power went out at the campground at about 3:45 this afternoon.

A little after 7pm NSP showed up to do an assessment. He told Luc that the maintenance truck would be another couple of hours. That they were currently in Mahone Bay. Had a stop on one of the Crossroads of a downed power line, and that the campground was the next stop.

I'll update this post when I hear anything else.

8:46pm - NB Power is there

9:10pm - We have power. YEA!!!!!

PSA: It's going to get windy

Regardless of whether Hurricane Bill makes landfall in Nova Scotia or not. There's a good chance it's going to get close enough to give us some really strong winds.

Here are some suggestions to prepare your trailer before you leave on Sunday.

1. If you have anything important in your trailer, take it with you.
2. Make sure your awning is rolled up.
3. Make sure that anything that can be blown away is secured to your deck or put inside.
4. In case of a power outage, if there is anything in your fridge or freezer that you don't want to lose, take it with you.
5. If you are here during or shortly after the hurricane, make sure to boil the campground water for one minute before drinking or brushing your teeth.

If anyone has any additional tips they'd like to add, feel free to do so in the comments.

If you would like to share your camping during Juan stories, or any other hurricane, I'd like to read them too.