Last week/weekend was the annual "Family Camping Trip." It begins on Wednesday and goes through the weekend. We are usually only able to go Friday night through Sunday because of our work schedules, but this year Mike and I were both able to get Friday off so we left Thursday night instead. Our kids went Wednesday afternoon with Kelly so we had Wednesday night to pack and get our gear loaded in the truck. Thursday morning dawned cloudy and scary looking. By the time I got off work and ran home to pick up the rest of our things, a torrential down-pour had begun!!! I'm telling you, if our kids weren't all ready there, I would have stayed home another night. They were, however, so I covered my head and ran to the truck sniffling. Mike was meeting me in Olympia where he was being dropped off so that we could bring one vehicle to the campsite because parking there is horrible. As I sat in the parking lot waiting for my brother (whom I thought was going to bail on me and surprised me by not) and Mike, I contemplated the humongous black rain cloud following me from my home town. I was praying that it would pass right by us and keep heading north. By the time my crowd had gathered, I had given up hope of staying dry and was hyping myself up to "enjoy" the rain because it's not like I was going to melt, right??????
I can't even tell you how amazed I was that we did not feel one single raindrop! The tarp that I had forgotten didn't matter and the cover that we did not have wasn't missed. Though it was cool and cloudy Wednesday through Saturday, it kept the bees at bay who's nest happened to be right by our "kitchen" table. My brother-in-law didn't notice the two bees that were innocently taking a drink inside his can, as he raised it to his lips....big mistake!! He got stung by them both... I never knew a lip could get that large! Anyway, the cooler weather wasn't bad and everyone had a great time enjoying the space and campfire. Kids made the meals with the help of one adult that could not be their own parent, which was nice, and there was hardly any fighting. We took up 4 huge campsites and I believe there were right around 25 people.
Sunday, the day that we were packing up and leaving, was sunny and hot. We had been saying the whole weekend that our last day would be the nicest weather-wise and we were not disappointed. It was a nice ending to a fun time though... We're working on putting all of the pictures taken over
here but until we do, here are some of the ones that are done.
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