Post-Camping

Yesterday was a pretty nice day- I mostly just lounged around and enjoyed being home. We did go out for a little bit in the afternoon to bum around the mall (air conditioning!) and meet Grandma Joyce and Grandpa Jim for lunch. fyi, Chili's has really good chicken fajitas. Anyway, while I was enjoying being a bum, mom was doing things like working her way through the mountains of laundry that camping produced.


Yeah. That's not even the clothes. That's just towels and bedding. Crazy, right?

Day 8/the End

We were going to stay tonight and leave tomorrow morning, but then we discovered that there were chances of thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow. So, change of plans! We packed up and left this afternoon.


Dad packing up some of the stuff around the campsite. We were out around noon.


Before we left, however, Roger the chipmunk showed up to say goodbye and try to scavenge out of our garbage bag one last time.

Day 7

Another nice bike ride, made even sweeter by the destination: the Corner Store. (where else?)


Michael and Colleen do really well on the rides there and back- they never have to stop for breaks or to walk their bikes, even though they're on little bikes with training wheels. Although, I doubt that they'll have training wheels on their bikes for much longer.

Day 6

Brenna's birthday! She turned 14, and we spent the 4th or 5th year in a row by celebrating with breakfast at Paul Bunyan's.


She has the pins to prove it, too. Happy birthday B :)

Day 5

Aunt Katie made the mistake of mentioning to my sisters and I that she would braid our hair for us if we wanted. Of course we did. Braids are so much easier when you're camping, for about a million different reasons.


I think she ended up doing mine on 3 different occasions. Thanks Aunt Katie!