Wrapping up July

I am so behind on my postings, I still have events from July that I have not blogged about yet. Hopefully with this one I will be done playing catch up and can move forward to this months events! The last weekend of July was spent camping and boating out on Patoka Lake.

FRIDAY - We arrived at the camp site around 1:30, got set up and then everyone went off to take the jet ski out on the water for a while. I got to stayed behind to relax in the peace and quite since the camp site was still very empty. I am not very big on camping in the first place so to have some time to myself was a major plus. It is not that camping is that bad it is just getting everything ready and most of the time not having a bathroom close at hand. Everyone did not get back until around 5:30 just in time to get a fire going and supper on and most importantly the rain covers and tarps. It had been thundering and getting darker for a little bit and Her just knew we would be getting some rain. Him said it would miss us and we had nothing to worry about but Her was not having any of it. I just knew we were gonna get something and sure enough we had a nice storm with heavy rains strong winds and even pea sized hail. So much for blowing over and missing us. Most of us were out in the storm trying to get all the food and other items covered and stored before they got ruined. One of the first things I did was grab a trash bag and shove over me to help keep myself some what dry I still got pretty wet before I got it on but it still helped. Now here I will remind you that I DO NOT really like to camp. So here I am pretty much soaked sporting the oh so fashionable black trash bag poncho and wondering how in the world am I gonna feed all of us since the storm decided to hit in the middle of cooking everything. The guys were able to get the fire going again and the food cooked thank God and thankfully none of our stuff got ruined! The rest of the night was spent around the fire and goofing off. The one good thing that the rain brought was cool weather. We had a nice chilly night, especially since I forgot our blankets and we had to buy a small throw at the camp store. It was only barely big enough for Her to cover up with, poor Him had to use a towel. Needless to say it was not the best night of sleep either of us have had.

 

SATURDAY - We all got up and had breakfast while the rest of our crew arrived and got set up. Then we were off to the marina for a beautiful day out on the pontoon boat. Our day out on the water was amazing. Not too hot, a nice breeze and warm water it was a good day to be out on the boat. We had our annual diving competition first for all the guys then for us few girls. The guys got a little bit more daring in their dives than us girls. But they were also the only ones who came away with a diving injury as well. There was a lot of swimming, noodle fights and jet ski rides that day as well. After all that fun on the water we headed back to the camp to eat supper, get cleaned up and then ended the night around the camp fire eating smores and telling jokes. That is all of his besides Him, he had to go and work on his sermon for the next morning in our tent. Him was up most of the night putting the finishing touches on it and going over it so he would be prepared to preach in the morning. 

Mount Laundry

SUNDAY morning came way too soon for all of us but it could not be helped. we had to be loaded up and ready to go so we could be back for Him to preach at 10:30. Luckily Patoka Lake is an hour ahead of us so that gave us some wiggle room. After service we all were ready for naps but first I had to get all the laundry sorted and out of bags so they wouldn't get all nasty. I ended up having 8 loads of laundry from this short camping trip (another reason not to like camping) all because the boys decided to bring their comforters instead of a light blanket.  But all in all even with not being a big fan of camping it was a good trip and great memories for the twins who had never done anything like this before.