July 12-15, 2007 Another Camping Weekend.

This was a fun filled weekend, with lots of fun. The kids got to spend a little more time in the lake this time, as the water wasn't quite so cold. They also spent a lot more time riding scooters, etc. There wasn't as much hiking, but Nicholas and Grandpa did head out to see how many kinds of leaves they could find. The weekend also included Allison's birthday celebration, the details of which are in the previous post. Nicholas has continued his interest in the stars and planets, so we got the binoculars out one night for him to check out the stars.

One special note for the weekend, was that Thursday evening a storm came thru very quickly. There wasn't much warning and all of the sudden the wind picked up and it got super, super dark. We just started to grab things and put them away and the wind picked our awning right up and "threw" the awning right up onto the roof of the trailer. The awning pole brackets ripped right out of the roof of the trailer, the awning poles actually flew over the top of the trailer and one of them landed on the windshield of the van. Thankfully, it hit right on the edge and there was only a scratch. We are very grateful that no one was in the way of our awning poles when they decided to take flight, it could have caused some serious injury. (Needless to say, we now stake them down right away). The storm passed as quickly as it came and we were able to repair the awning. Some friends of ours were also in the park that weekend and filmed some awesome waterspouts on the water. That was quite a night.