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pegkerrRob's employer, as it does periodically, momentarily forgot about its mission to destroy our family life, and actually scheduled Rob two weekend days off. I believe that the last time this happened was sometime last year. Since we were going up north to pick up Fiona from her week at summer music camp, Rob had the scathingly brilliant idea that we should rent a campsite at a State park nearby, and camp for the weekend.
Since Rob gets his schedule on Wednesday, we didn't learn this soon enough to reserve a campground in advance; we had to depend on getting one of the sites reserved for first-come-first-served visitors. The weather reports were not good for Friday night, either, so we debated anxiously whether we should go up that night or Saturday morning. But the prediction of thunderstorms for Friday dropped from 70% to 30% by the time I got home from work on Friday. Since we were learning about this at the last minute, our getaway was quite a scramble, and yes, we did leave some things behind.
We got to the campsite at 9:30, which meant we set the tent up in the dark, and yes, it was sprinkling. That was stressful. But aside from that, everything went beautifully, and after a brief shower on Saturday morning when we were in the car anyway, the weather was splendid. We were at the St. Croix State Park, which is the site where we were so miserable from the mosquitoes last summer. This time we had our screened pavilion along, but I don't think I got a single mosquito bite all weekend. There just weren't any around at all.
We drove to Fiona's Saturday morning, and saw the program they'd spent the week preparing. They did excerpts from "The Wiz." Then, as we hoped, Fiona buried herself in her book for the trip back and noticed nothing until we were actually pulling into the campground, and so got a great surprise.
The rest of the weekend was happy and relaxing. We rented bikes for one hour, but otherwise hung around the campground, where I prepared our meals (the set of camp cookware we'd bought on the trip up proved itself unworthy; we exchanged it for another on the way back) and the girls tended the fire. We got back in good order yesterday at 6:00. I have not had a chance to check my friends page and can't now; have to dash for work.
Since Rob gets his schedule on Wednesday, we didn't learn this soon enough to reserve a campground in advance; we had to depend on getting one of the sites reserved for first-come-first-served visitors. The weather reports were not good for Friday night, either, so we debated anxiously whether we should go up that night or Saturday morning. But the prediction of thunderstorms for Friday dropped from 70% to 30% by the time I got home from work on Friday. Since we were learning about this at the last minute, our getaway was quite a scramble, and yes, we did leave some things behind.
We got to the campsite at 9:30, which meant we set the tent up in the dark, and yes, it was sprinkling. That was stressful. But aside from that, everything went beautifully, and after a brief shower on Saturday morning when we were in the car anyway, the weather was splendid. We were at the St. Croix State Park, which is the site where we were so miserable from the mosquitoes last summer. This time we had our screened pavilion along, but I don't think I got a single mosquito bite all weekend. There just weren't any around at all.
We drove to Fiona's Saturday morning, and saw the program they'd spent the week preparing. They did excerpts from "The Wiz." Then, as we hoped, Fiona buried herself in her book for the trip back and noticed nothing until we were actually pulling into the campground, and so got a great surprise.
The rest of the weekend was happy and relaxing. We rented bikes for one hour, but otherwise hung around the campground, where I prepared our meals (the set of camp cookware we'd bought on the trip up proved itself unworthy; we exchanged it for another on the way back) and the girls tended the fire. We got back in good order yesterday at 6:00. I have not had a chance to check my friends page and can't now; have to dash for work.
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