This weekend was our first camping trip without dad with us. He took some overtime shifts at work, so he was working all weekend. We planned to go down with two sets of friends of ours, but that took a twist too. My best friends are two women who are sister-in-laws (Portia and Amy). Portia is married to Amy’s brother Eric, and they have one child Alexis who is actually Eric’s 16 year old step-daughter. Amy is married to Aaron and Aaron wound up having a band gig last night, so he couldn’t go with us. Amy decided to go with us anyway. Portia hates camping so she didn’t want to go either. So Eric and Alexis came with us. It was rather funny actually, but at least Aaron, Portia and Mike decided to get together and have dinner Friday night and then they watched Vantage Point together.
Meanwhile we were all having the time of our lives camping without our closest friends which actually was fun anyway, but we kept talking about them not being there. LOL Saturday Amy and Eric and Alexis went on a canoe float trip. I didn’t feel up to taking five kids out in canoe’s OR a raft BY MYSELF so we opted to stay back at the site and do “kid-like” stuff. We swam in the river, panned for gems, checked out a cave and eventually returned back to camp to find the remnants of a horrible rain storm. Not cool. For a brief moment I actually considered packing up and leaving when the other three returned to camp. Everything was so wet. Thankfully I had scotch-guarded the tent TWICE before we came, so everything in the tent was perfectly okay. I’m glad we stayed though, because we wound up playing games all night (the favorite was WHOONU which is from the Cranium games and is SO fun for kids and adults).
This morning we woke up to sunshine and a gorgeous day. We packed the rest of the stuff up, and then went down to the river for some pictures, skipping rocks, playing a few games and just hanging out. Oddly I was ready to leave when it was time, I couldn’t wait to get back home and see Mike before he left for work.
It was a great weekend, but next time I want him to come with.
