B took a week off of work the last week of summer vacation. Let me just say that summer went by way too fast. Truly, I think this was the fastest summer of my life. Anyway, we wanted to go camping to kick the week off. We went up after church on Sunday. It was so beautiful!
I promise we weren't chopping wood in the dark. Our camera just makes it look like that! Chopping the small pieces of wood into smaller pieces of wood was a huge highlight. The reason for the sunglasses you ask? To protect their eyeballs of course. My 24 year old nephew was pulling trim off the wall in a house he just bought, had his glasses on his head instead of on his face. A piece of wood came flying into his eyeball. It's truly a miracle that after only two surgeries, he can see. We learned to always wear glasses when playing with wood, when one doesn't remember to pack the safety glasses, you use sunglasses instead. Anyway, they chopped and chopped and chopped the wood.
Here's proof that it wasn't dark whilst wood chopping was going on. This about sums up how happy he was. To say that he was a cranky bum is putting it lightly. He didn't want to be held, but he didn't want to get down. He didn't want to sit in a chair, but he was really mad if you asked him if he wanted to walk. He was just super unpleasant!
He clearly had no interest in wearing the sunglasses and watching them chop wood. He was totally done, so I put his jammies on and put him in bed. The poor thing was asleep within minutes. Too bad for him, he missed the best part of camping!
The fire! I did breathe easier with him not at the fire. The pit at our site was awful! The cement slab was on a hill and the fire pit was only a few inches high. Around the slab were roots and rocks, so falling around the fire would have been a huge concern. My two year old niece fell into the fire this summer. We weren't there, so I can only imagine how horrible it was to watch. My sister grabbed her out of the fire and soaked her with water. She has awful burns on her back and her arm. That's another miracle, that her burns weren't worse.
If these pictures don't break your heart and make you cry, nothing will. I still cry when I see them and it happened over a month ago. Thankfully she's ok, but because of her accident, we didn't let little B near the fire area. M made a great guard dog and if little B got within 10 feet of it she would run over and pick him up.
This was one side of the table
And this was the other side. We stayed up until at least 11 eating candy and playing games. There was a huge bee that kept flying around us and that wasn't great. K does NOT like bees. He didn't care that it was late, he heard it, hadn't even seen it yet, screamed while he jumped up from the table and ran into the dark to get away from it. He was ok as long as it didn't get too close. By too close I mean within hearing range. Because it was so big you could hear it from really far away. There was far too much screaming, jumping up and running happening, so we had to call it a night. As we laid in the tent not sleeping, because really, does anyone in a tent sleep? Not from this household. Well, not the adults at least. Anyway, as we laid there we heard the rain start. We knew there was a chance of rain, but we had decided to risk it. It was a gamble we took, and lost. It rained most of the night. It stopped right before it got light outside. We got up and ate breakfast.. As we were cleaning it up so we could go on a hike, the rain started again. We tried waiting it out.
We used the tailgate as a shade. We waited and waited hoping that it would let up and stop. It didn't. We didn't think that little B would totally love hanging out in the tent all day while it rained outside, so we packed up and came home. Of course as we were loading the last person in the car, the clouds parted and out came the sun. That was a totally bummer, but we were not going to be sad about leaving early! We finished our camp out in our living room. The next day our visitor from the west came. Mama B came for a few days! We had fun things planned. M and K didn't want to tell her anything we were doing. They wanted to keep it a surprise. They loved knowing what was happening and not telling her. K would get so excited that as he talked, he would get progressively louder. We didn't even have to be talking about our surprise plans for his volume to increase. Talking about anything while he was keeping a secret made him louder and louder.
We took her to a place called Great Wolf Lodge. (Obviously, There is a sign above their heads!) It's just a hotel with an amazing indoor water park. It was awesome! No one knows why little B is crying. It's not his wolf ears, he loved having those on. He wasn't tired, he had slept the entire car ride. He wasn't hungry, we had eaten lunch before we took the picture. He was just sad I guess. As soon as we took the picture and put him down, he was totally fine. The water park was awesome! Besides the fact that the water was far too cold, it was a blast! There were big water slides, a baby area, a wave pool, a huge tree house and a rope monkey bar thing.
These little fountains were at the entrance of the wave pool. He loved to touch them with his hands and then hit the water so it would spray everywhere. He didn't love the baby area, so he and I spent a lot of time walking around looking at things and watching people. I do love people watching!
The room was awesome! They had a wolf den where the offspring slept. In the corner there's a TV that plays Disney Channel. These two were in heaven! There was enough room in the den for little B's pack n' play. All the kids were in the den and the adults were out in the main part of the room. Poor Mama B got stuck with the sofa bed. I felt really bad that she got the crummy bed. You could almost see the springs when you pulled the bed out. She had to fold the blanket up about ten times and lay on top of it so she didn't have a spring digging into her back. She also had to sleep with her head at the foot of the bed. She said the bed slanted down so if she slept right, she would be angled down and that's not great. She was a trooper and said it was fine once she fell asleep, but we know that she just doesn't complain about anything. Great Wolf Lodge is awesome because you can use the water park at 1:00 the day you check in and the day you leave you can use it until it closes at 8:00. We only had to stay one night and still felt like we got to use the water park enough.
We went to the local amusement park one day, died of the heat but still had fun. We went to a safari place another day where we got to feed giraffes and buffalo. I thought that we had taken more pictures with our camera, but if I remember right, our camera died and so we had to use B's phone. His phone is at work with him, so you'll have to use your imagination! We loved having grandma here and we were all sad when she had to leave. K tried to talk her into staying for another week and was really disappointed when she said she needed to go home. We love her so much and hope that she can hurry back!
Looks like so much fun!
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