Never say Never (Camping at Lake Allatoona)

Once upon a time I said "I'll never go camping at Lake Allatoona again!". You may recall my 2nd post and how awful that trip was. Jess and I were deciding where to go camping the other week and she kept going on about Lake Allatoona. "I grew up on that lake. I have such great memories on that lake. Lake Allatoona is great" she said. And on and on, I think you get the picture. Sometimes you have to pick your battles. I gave in and off we went with 3 children. Yes 3! Noah's best friend Hayes tagged along and we headed out for great fun. Jess wanted to go to Macedonia but it was either lost or closed (or she was lost don't know which). So we settled for one of her "favorite places as a kid" Sweetwater Creek. The camp site looked OK at 1st review but turned out to be crawling in army ants which got on everything. We bought home a couple thousand of them and started an ant farm in the front yard. Other than that the site was good, right on the lake with no one around until about 10:00PM. We had just put the boys down and a group with a giant boat decided to back into the site next to use. Instead of the 15 other close by. The walk on the shore was pretty nice except for all the goose scat. The lake was so dirty the Jess only got in one time for about 5 mins. The boys had a great time in the water and playing at the site. It was nowhere near as bad as the last trip to Lake Allatoona. Jess was in such a rush to leave the nest morning that I didn't get a chance to use my inflatable boat. Maybe next time.