Weekend Recap

Friday night Mike and I had dinner with our two chaplains and their wives. The older boys closed (big festival in town so late hours last week) and Jared watched the younger ones. We came home to this.....the only way to watch movies.
Saturday - It's BAAAACCCCKKKKK - the big nameless thing that is alternately being called Bertha, The Bus, Dream Boat 2, The Turd, The Really Big Thing - arrived back in our neighborhood. ::snort::
We took everything out of the pop up. Decided which items should go in The Really Big Thing, which items should stay in the pop up, and which items should be sold later this summer. Things such as BIG outdoor camp stoves, outdoor sinks, porta potties, solar showers, and campfire cookware are now in the garage. Dishes and such are now in Bertha. I FOUND the camping list on a disc that Don had sent with recovered material from my crashed computer. I updated it to reflect our new needs. Mike took the pop up back to storage.

Mike and Jared worked on our sprinkler system. We'd like to have this running before we leave. I'm AMAZED at how Mike figures these things out. Mike and Jared report that the mud in TX is smelly and slimy

Zander is always willing to help the big guys - ah the things he could do with a shovel!
While they sweat in the sun, ::snort::, I tried to find campsites for the first leg of our trip. We used to just take off.....after two trips that included driving all night because there were no hotels with 2 rooms available.... we try to reserve ahead. We're not sure if campgrounds will be a problem, but it is summer.... I've got the first leg booked between here and the Convention. After AK, we'll be trying to make "good" time to get all the way back here in 3 days and may not want to be tied to specific cities. We shall see.

Saturday night Mike and I had a Parish Appreciation Dinner. The older boys worked. Jared watched the youngers. After the dinner we went to Best Buy. We had hoped to pick up a
lap top they had at Best Buy. Originally this was going to be Josiah's graduation gift, then it looked so small, that one thing led to another and it became MY laptop. Jamin and I would sure enjoy being away from home a month much better if we had a lap top. We must write. Sad, sad thing is that they were sold out of the lap top and not giving rain checks.

We came and discovered that we were out of milk and bottle tops. We headed to Walmart. We also took the opportunity to see what they had for setting up The Dream Boat. We decided that I would measure on Sunday and go back. We were surprised when looking for a small toaster for The Turd that they now make toasters that warm your meat and poach your eggs; we didn't opt for that model. Sounded dangerous....

Sunday - Two services, lunch, measuring The Really Big Thing, getting Cy ready for his trip.....and another trip to Walmart. I found it very funny to be buying these sorts of things for a "camper". I told myself that at least we wouldn't need suitcases...we could pack right into the trailer....and promptly remembered that we are FLYING from Seattle to Anchorage and so we'll have to haul suitcases along anyway. ::snort::
We all made it back for the 1800 service, tried to go to Coldstone (chapel gift certificates), but the line was SILLY! We opted for DQ instead. While there, Zander helped himself to a Dilly Bar from the freezer. He thought it was like home and you could just get what you wanted...which works to a point..for ONE. LOL