Labor Day Week

So we picked a weekend that was not going to busy camp wise. The weather according to the computer said it would be nice and as long as we were out of there by Tuesday afternoon we would miss the storm that was supposed to hit Lake Easton. John took the couple days off and we headed out for what was looking like a wonderful get away from everyday life. We arrived at Lake Easton and much to our surprise it started to sprinkle. No big deal we would get the tent set up and then get dinner going. Yeah right. We got the tent set up and it started to pour. We couldn't get a fire to stay long enough for us to fix our dinner. We had planned on having sandwiches for lunches but because of the rain we decided to go ahead and have them for dinner and then have our tin foil dinners for lunch the next day. We retired early because we had nothing else to do with it raining. We woke to what was looking like a beautiful Monday. We had breakfast and then decided to go hiking. Mariska, being the independent person she is, refused to be carried and walked almost the entire couple of miles we hiked. Towards the end she had had enough and she seemed a little cold so I stuffed her into my jacket and walked with her wrapped around my front the last half mile or so back to camp. She went down for a nap and I decided to join her since I tossed and turned most the night. It started to rain again while we were sleeping but nothing to bad. John hung out with Aurie and they had some good conversations. It did rain just enough that when Mariska woke and started to run around and do the usual falling down she was falling down in mud instead of dirt. I took a lot of clothes for two days and I was starting to run out of them. I guess I never realized how dirty kids can get by being out side in the rain. It doesn't help that Mariska is OCD about having her hands clean. Anytime she fell down she wouldn't catch herself with her hands but would catch herself with her elbows or stomach. I am not sure where she got that from. I had a feeling to get dinner going at 4:00 so I did and we ate early it rained off and on for a couple of hours and I had decided that we should just pack up and go home because obviously the storm had decided to show it's head early. As soon as I came to this decision it started to pour. There was no way we would get everything cleaned up in that much rain so we went to bed early again. It rained all night long. Everything was soaked when we got up Tuesday. It had finally stopped raining and I told John that we just needed to go home. I was glad that we had some time on Monday to go hiking but I am sorry ti say this was not one of my favorite camping trips. I was surprised at how well Mariska did apart from constantly being in the mud and eating the leaves off the trees. She stayed away from the camp fire when we had one and she for the most part stayed in our camp cite without being told. She was up set that we had to go home but fortunately I am Mom and what I say goes.

We went to the Fair here in Ellensburg on Thursday and had a really good time. I was actually surprised at how much fun my sister had. I enjoy going but I wasn't too sure about her. She actually stayed with some friends from the ward when John and I came home and then when I went back to walk around that evening Aurie came with me. It was nice to have some sister time and I didn't realize how much I was in need of it. We really enjoyed the animals and had a great time seeing everything else. Hope you are all doing well.