Poking Around Watkins Glen KOA

Today was our second full day in Watkins Glen/Corning KOA after moving here Wednesday, May 7. We've had beautiful weather, although thunderstorms are coming in this evening.  Thursday was devoted to logistics.  Today we had to wait for a UPS delivery requiring a delivery signature, so we found things to do around the campground as we waited.

KOA is running a special "1 free day" campaign this weekend for Mothers Day, so the campground will be full to overflowing.  Even as we looked out from our site during mid-day, many sites were filling up.  The park is pretty and scenically located:

We decided to take a picnic lunch over to the little fishing pond at the other end of the campground. On the way to the pond, we found that campground staff were busy inflating the bounce area and the inflatable water slide:

Making our way around the pond, we could see the inflatable slide across the way.  While difficult to see in this photo, a female goose was nesting on the small island in the middle of the pond:

Here her mate is swimming guard, or fishing for dinner, or whatever:

We enjoyed tasty wraps and lemonade, with olive appetizers:

The sound of peeping frogs was extant.  As we walked around the edge of the pond, we could see the frogs everywhere.  They were extremely active and, as far as we could tell, bumping into each other:

After a while, we realized why they were all being so aggressive.  This is mating season, and the male frogs are trying to butt the other males out of the way, and then mount the females.  There was more than one menage a frog (or was it a game of "king of the princess"?):

Strolling back to our campsite from lunch, we saw that the slide had been fully inflated and was rising in all its glory, beckoning the little campers to come enjoy its thrills:

The next blog entry will describe our trip over to hike the gorge at Watkins Glen State Park.  After we returned from that adventure, we relaxed a little, met our new campground neighbors and shared their sad tales of woe.  They said that not less than SIXTY things had gone wrong with their fifth wheel since they bought it last year.  To top all of that off, they had arrived and somehow misplaced the key they needed to unlock the truck hitch in order to release the trailer and get it levelled and set up.  Luckily they are local, so they could run back home to search for it.  Eventually, they found they had unwittingly dropped the trailer key in the grass as they first arrived.  All's well that ends well.  We thanked our lucky stars for our obsessively detailed checklist that (hopefully) helps us keep track of things like that.  Nevertheless, how will a checklist help us avoid unknowingly dropping our keys in the grass?  Life is uncertain at best.