Memorial Day Sunday: the wet day

Although I had initially been hoping that there wouldn't be any more rain, the weather didn't agree.  Monday around 7am it started to lightly sprinkle.  We got a text from the owners of the camper asking us to put up the awning if it started storming and getting very windy.  Well, the last thing I wanted to do was deal with the awning in the middle of a storm, and we were about to go to church.  I made the decision to put up the awning then.

Of course, Ben wasn't around as the beds weren't very good and he slept at home.  We almost got it up by ourselves, but it stuck at one point.  We asked a neighbor who put a bit more oomph into it than we were willing to try and we got it up.

By the time we got it up there was a steady rain, but not too bad.  We went in the camper for a bit before church.  Then we walked to church.  By this time the rain had increased a bit more and had been going steadily for a while.  Our slight uphill walk was a river of water going down the road!  My shoes got soaked and my socks got soaked.  I was less miserable than I expected once I sat down and didn't move my feet, but my toes got rather cold.

(As a side note, the sermon theme was about listening.  The pastor said "we were able to listen better before the internet was exploding in our ears.  Literally exploding."  Isaac and I looked at each other as that clarification was not correct.)

Anyway, the rain started to taper off after church, Ben came over with a bunch of dry shoes, and by 2pm the rain had stopped.  We had a nice fire and hobo pies.

Then the mist set in.  It was so weird, because the temperature was fine but you could see your breath as you breathed and talked.  I had things sitting on the picnic table from dinner, and when I moved them there was a dry spot underneath.

In the afternoon, once things had dried out, Isaac made a really long chalk line to follow.  It started on the road in front of the ice cream, went around by the big tree, through the front of the store area, past more picnic tables, and all the way to the beach.  It was pretty fun.  Most people ignored it, but we saw a few people following it.

We all went to bed at a semi-reasonable time because things were misty.