Vacation

We have returned from our vacation...taken a little while to post though! We arrived home on Wednesday, 7/2, in the afternoon...got online just long enough to send an im to Raine to let her know we got home...that's all we did.

Well...about the vacation...we had a GREAT time!! So much fun. We took D to the train to head south to her mom's house on Friday, 7/27...then got gas and ice and headed back to Raine's where we packed up the car then headed out. It was smoky as hell! At about the half-way mark we stopped to let Charlie (puppy) walk around, to hopefully prevent carsickness (he didn't get sick). I tried to call diana during that time but there is no signal there...bummer. A little past that I got a voicemail but couldn't check it because the signal wasn't good enough. So we get to the town about 10 miles from our destination and stop again for Charlie. At this point I have a good signal and pick-up my voicemail...it's S-girl wondering where we are! So I call her and tell her our location and she's excited...I think...she sounded excited anyways. We arrive about 30 minutes later, do the "omg it's good to see you" thing...then set up our tent, shove our stuff in it, pull out the cooler and other food, then head down to the lake. We spent the afternoon at the lake. The exact spot in the picture from the previous post. J decided to go out on the tube )towed by the boat) with S-girl...first time ever...and we don't swim...at least not well! Don't worry...life vest is required. No one fell off!! Amazing because the next day when S-girl went she/they flew off 3 times...and I do mean FLEW off!

Let's see...what else did we do...

We had some great foil/hobo dinners. The first night, terriaki glazed cheicken breats and pineapple, the second night, hickory marinated chicken breasts and butternut squash. Foil/hobo dinners are where you wrap your meat and veggies in foil and then they are cooked in the fire...literally...the wrapped foils are put in the coals and cook there. The third night everyone had arrived from H's family...we did the big family dinner. It's burritos...everyone brings an ingredient to share...we brought salsa and chips.

We spent every day at the lake...got very tan...VERY! Even with sunscreen. We did a lot of walking, alot of playing in the water, a lot of being out on the boat. One try at tubing alone. There were a lot of wakes from other boats and we got a huge wake in the face which scared little J and we stopped. The last day, in the morning, we went down to the lake and went all the way around the lake on the tube with one of H's sisters...it was great. We didn't go nearly as fast as when we went with S-girl, but that was perfectly fine with us. Our plan is to learn to swim before next year so we won't be so scared so easily. We are fully aware that the life vest will keep us from sinking, but there is still too much anxiety for it to be fun...at least out there alone. With S-girl it was fun...it was fun with E also, and she kept talking the whole time which really eased the anxiety. We also spent a lot of time not sleeping very well...but that was because the ground was too hard...next year, blow up mattresses!

So we had a blast! Next year D is coming too.

Warrier