#peistaycation

It's May long weekend and our camper isn't quite ready for the season yet so we didn't get to spend our May long at a campground this year. Though we did hit up a Provincial Day park, we spent our Sunday afternoon at Bonshaw Hills Provincial Park in Bonshaw PEI.

This day park has a cute small wooden themed park with slides and swings! It also many trails to walk or mountain bike in.

After a quick play at the park our family went for an hour walk on the trails and got caught in the rain but I actually found it kind of fun walking in the rain!

My 14 year old and 7 year old both said that their favorite part of this park was leaving! (They were not to fond of being all wet!)

and

My favorite part was actually walking in the rain!

When your camper breaks you settle for a Provincial day park instead of a campground

and since my sister in law is here from Ontario I thought it would be a great opportunity to hit up a day park I've never been to before either, so Chelton Provincial Park in Albany we drove to!

When we arrived it ended being pretty windy so the towels on the sand where a better option  then our chairs, thankfully it's more of a packed sand so we were not getting sand blasted. We dipped our toes in the water and the water was very warm!

The view of the bridge was so pretty to look at!

They also had a small playground here with swings and a big playslide.

Showers and bathrooms are also on site which is always a nice option to have.

Definitely a great spot to pack a picnic and stay the day.

My favorite part of this park was the view of the bridge.

My 6 year old said his favorite part was splashing his auntie in the water.

And...

My sister in law said her favorite part was putting her toes in the

This afternoon our family decided to try out a Provincial Park that we have never been to before!

So, we packed our beach stuff and headed out to Sally's Beach Provincial Park in Spry Point, PEI.

This is an unsupervised day use Provincial Park with a beautiful beach and tiny park, (literally just a slide and swings). It is very well kept though and a great way to spend the day.

We spend a couple hours on the beach with hardly anyone else around us! It was so beautiful and peaceful, it was even the nice soft white sand!

After a couple hours of exploring the water, the sand, and relaxing on the beach we went up to the small park.

They boys played on the slide and swings for a bit before we packed up to head home.

My 5 year old said his favorite park was the park.

My 12 year old said his favorite hanging out at the beach.

(Though he wished he had brought some chips 😆)

My favorite part was relaxing on the beach and laughing with my family.

I would definitely come here again, it would be a great place for a family picnic or just to have a beach day!

It even had big, clean bathrooms!

Last week was my vacation and of course it rained almost the whole time so our camping trip got cut a little bit short. However, on my last day of vaction the sun decided to shine so the boys and I headed out to Arygle Shore Provincial Park with some friends. (This is a Day Park, not a campground) but it is a really beautiful spot!

They had a two small areas for children, one on each side of the parking lot. The kids enjoyed playing at the newer park for a bit. We had a nice little picnic on the picnic table that was at the park and my friend and I were able to catch up while the boys played.

After we finished our lunch we headed down to the beach and it was beautiful! It wasn't the singing sands kind of beach but it was still very pretty. There was even a water coming down the cliff! The water from the water fall was freezing but the beach water was very warm. (And trust me I do not call water warm lightly!)

I will definitely come back to this day Park and think it would be a great place to spend your day, have a picnic and spend time with your friends and family.

My 5 year old says his favorite part was the waterfall.

And My 12 year old said he didn't have a favorite part.

And My favorite was how warm the water was!

And also, on the way out I saw a new campground to add to my list

Arygle Shore Waterview Cottages and Campground.

Campground #17

We just spent our weekend celebrating my upcoming birthday at our 17th PEI campground; CNG Country Cabins and Campground in Brackley, PEI.

We arrived to this campground a bit before supper time on Friday evening, our first impression of our site was that it was kind of small but one of the parks was right behind us so the kids definitely loved that! Once we got all set up we had some supper and for the first time since we started camping this season we ate inside the camper since it was so cold outside! Though, not cold enough to stop us from having a campfire! The quiet time is 11 here and fires are suppose to be out then too, we went a little longer then this but no body came down and said anything to us!

On Saturday morning we lazed around our camper for most of it and ate some delicious Borrowed Kitchen bakery goods for breakfast! Around 11 we decided we should go for a walk and check out the campground and petting farm!

Our walk around the campground itself didn't take very long as it is not a big campground at all, in fact this is actually the first year they are even a campground, they have cottages before but just added the campground this year! (Apparently if the campground part does well they may expand on that part!) On our walk we saw they had 3 different playground areas, just little parks but they were very appropriate for my 4 year old and they had a big tree house that even I went inside and it was pretty cool! They also have a small outdoor pool and get this....a large indoor pool! After exploring the parks we found the animals and they were all so friendly! You could tell these animals (the mini horse, the pig, the goat, the rabbits and the 4 large horses) were loved and well taken care of by their owners! We probably spent a good chunk of our afternoon just admiring the animals and petting them!

After our exploring we went make to our campsite for some lunch. After our lunch the kids wanted to try the pool. It was a cold fall day so we were all happy and thankful that this place had a indoor pool. When we arrived at the pool we saw it was very big length wise and it was so warm! My husband, myself and our two youngest boys spent most of our afternoon swimming in this amazingly warm nice indoor pool!

After swim time we froze walking back to our camper 🤣, changed into our nice warm clothing, had supper and started our evening campfire!

This weekend was also my early Birthday Celebrations so we listened to the hoe down around the campfire with the boys grandparents (who were camping next to us for the weekend!)

*My husband did request a Happy Birthday shout out to CFCY but unfortunately Darren Macpherson didn't pass the message on*

We sat around the fire until a little after 12 or so! (Again, fires are suppose to out by 11 but maybe since we were quiet enough that no one came to say anything!)

The next morning we didn't wake up until 9 and check out is 10am! So we packed up pretty much as soon as we woke up. We were a bit pass 10 getting out there but no one said anything to us about that!

I liked this campground for this time of the year because of the indoor pool option and want to try it again in a few more years when they add more campsites to it!

My 11 year old said his favorite part of this campground was the indoor pool.

My 4 year old said his favorite part was the miniature horse.

My favorite part would be the indoor pool also and the fact the park was right behind us!

If you like to party and be loud while you are camping then this is definitely not the campground for you!

This is a small quiet family friendly type of campground and the traffic here was also nonexistent! (After seeing the animals and even before we hit the pool my 11 year old actually said to me "We are definitely coming back here next year"...he seems to like the smaller, quieter campgrounds so from now on I may refer to the small, quiet ones as a "Carter Campground")