weekend: camping

 Oh, it was a good weekend camping.  Ben got in Saturday morning after being gone all week, so it was nice to have him back.  The kids were significantly less excited to see him than I was expecting.

Joshua palled around with his friend all weekend.  We saw him, but not nearly as much as last year.  I don't know too much about what they did, but there was laser tag, playground, and scooters.  At one point they went to the beach and talked.  What did they talk about?  Minecraft.  Do they talk about anything besides Minecraft?  Umm...sometimes?

We also picked up a friend for Isaac to spend Saturday with.  She ended up leaving a little bit before supper, but it sounds like she had a great time and it was nice to see Isaac out and about with a friend.  He played ball tag and laser tag with the other friends in our group throughout the weekend too.  

The weather throughout the weekend was weird.  Friday was hot.  Saturday was cool.  Sunday started out cool, warmed up nicely, and then rained.  The rain left sooner than I was anticipating, so we ended up with a camp fire at night.  Monday, which I thought would be dry and cool, was a very light rain and cold.  People were packing up sooner than normal because it just wasn't all that nice out.

I took a walk on the beach Sunday afternoon and then Isaac joined me for a short walk to where I had seen some good rocks.  There was another rockhound there, and she told us all the types of the rocks that Isaac had found.  I let him keep five.

Monday morning we just kind of hung out.  We read.  We played a game.  Joshua hung out with his friend and both boys did some scootering.  We had lunch on the early side.  Isaac asked for a water bottle, so Ben gave him one with barely any water in it.  Haha.  Then Ben gave him the red one, but I think someone filled that one up with water from the campground and the water did not taste good.  So Ben grabbed a third bottle from the counter.  By this time I was up and asked him if he'd prefer cold water.  I grabbed the one that had been in the freezer until Saturday night.  So it was cold, it had water, but it still wasn't an ideal case.  It was very funny though, and it had enough water.

Everyone helped pack up and clean out the trailer and it went nice and fast.  The kids decided that they did want to play mini golf - it's pretty much an annual tradition to play it right before we leave.  It was cold, but the mist had stopped so the weather wasn't too bad.  After getting a hole in one on the first hole, Joshua decided he wanted to keep score.  (Usually Ben and I just keep a running tally between the two of us.)  Unfortunately, Isaac won, Joshua came in second, and Ben and I tied for third.  (I had one hole where the ball kept coming all the way back to me!  One time I hit it against a tree to return it, one time it hit the edging, one time it made it past the tree but then rebounded on the rock!  It was a bad hole for me.)

On the way to our last pie/ice cream of the weekend we stopped by the rock for the annual pictures.  Apparently there are a lot of traditions associated with this trip.