Well, we got the kiddo’s off to camp today. The two oldest left this morning for teen camp so we have the other three home still. They go to the same camp in July.
My step-daughter was funny this morning. She told me that she had a dream that we couldn’t get her to camp and she didn’t go, and she woke up halfway crying because she has been so excited to go. Totally the opposite of my son who would have rather stayed home, but was kinda made to go. They are both 13 in case you are wondering. And yes, it’s sleepaway.
Oh! Bit of advice – if you are taking your children to drop them off somewhere you’ve never been for them to leave on a bus to go to a camp you’ve never been, that is a few hours away from your town and you decide to leave the house at 9am because they are supposed to be there at 10am, and it takes about 40 minutes to get to the destination you need to drop them off at because that is what the camp sponsor told you. And you are relying on Yahoo maps to get you there because again, you’ve never been to this church before and it’s supposed to be 40 minutes away. Don’t. Seriously. Do not (I repeat, DO NOT) rely on Yahoo Maps. We wound up 45 minutes East of where we needed to be! In fact, we wound up right where my son went to 5th grade camp several years ago. Yeesh!
We arrived at the church at 11:08am. An hour and 8 minutes after they asked us to be there. All the while of this agonizing 2 hours of horror, I am calling all four phone numbers that they gave me to call, and NOBODY is answering any of them – people why do you have a cell phone if you won’t answer it! I had to stop at this tiny gas station in the smallest po-dunk town, and lemme just tell you – these people were absolutely sweet!!
They enlisted customers, 411 information, and they used what little information I was able to give to them and a very old, incomplete map hanging on the back wall to piece together enough information to get us there. I left that gas station at 10:52am.
We were literally praising God when we arrived at the church and the bus was still there. So, the two kids are gone and it’s actually pretty quiet around here with only three. But we did take full advantage of the rest of the day and went fishing (caught nothing), had a campfire, ate a dinner that the other two picky eaters won’t eat, and enjoyed root beer floats to round out the whole day.
I’m actually exausted. Now I’m sippin’ a Strawberry Margarita (which I don’t do often) and am about to hit the hay! Catch ya later!
Happy Father’s Day to all you dads!
Totally know what you mean. I printed up directions from MapQuest and RandMcNally to take my daughter to a Jonas Brothers concert. Still… got there so late, we missed the concert. This has happened twice. (Thank God she got to meet them or I would never heard the end of it.)
I wonder if GPS works is any better…
Enjoy the little break from the teens, know what it’s like. I’m a wahm of 7 kids…5 teens, a 9 and 6 yr old.
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I have been a victim of the yahoo maps many of times, you’d think I would learn,
Sounds like you deserved the Margarita. Enjoy!!
To answer Supermom’s question – yes the GPS DOES work better but only if you update it at least once a year.
I always do Mapquest and RandMcNally too but print them both up to make sure they agree with each other and if they don’t, at least I have another way to get there if I get lost.
Enjoy the time while the kids are at camp, but I can see you are already doing that
HUGS!!