Camping again--Day 53

I had lots of fun totally exhausting myself today. I enjoy the fact and praise God that I'm going to be 36 in a couple of weeks and can still keep up with the kids. I got to the campsite a little after 7:00 to see everyone still sleeping except for Noah. We were able to play for a bit and soon we had woken everyone else up. Colton and I were playing catch before 9, and then Gabrielle, Noah and I went to one of the parks to play. We played there a bit, and then walked back to change, get Colton and go swimming. The morning was too cool and the water was too cold for me to jump in, so I just watched Colton and Gabrielle, much to the disappointment of Colton. Almost every kid or adult that jumped in and then later jumped out of that pool ended up shaking like a leaf. Noah was pretty angry he couldn't just jump in, so he'll have to get some swimming lessons as soon as we can.

Later, Colton, Gabrielle and I got some wristbands. (As an aside I've really made it a point to call her Gabrielle on this blog and to her rather than Gabby. It's sounds so much prettier. Noah has caught on and now yells "Gabbyell!" rather than "Gabby!") The wristbands let us play putt-putt golf, the bumperboats, water wars, bank-shot basketball, the hippo-slide, and the go-carts to our hearts content for four hours. Between the three of us, we did each multiple times except for the basketball. With just 20 minutes to go, Gabrielle wanted to play putt-putt as she hadn't been able to yet and Colton wanted to ride the bumper-boats. Knowing the bumper-boats were only supposed to take 7 minutes, we did that first and then ran back to get our putters with 5 minutes to go.

When we got back to the campsite, Mary made some sloppy joes. I'm not particularily fond of sloppy joes, but they were quite good and I had a couple. Colton wanted to rent a banana bike, so I rented him one and Gabrielle, Noah and I rented a three seater. After our 40 minutes were up, we got an ice cream. When we got back to the campsite, I layed down, opened a book and passed out. When I awoke, the kids played some UNO, we played a game of Scattergories and then I left after asking them to pray with me. We all, including Noah, went to Mary's bed to pray. Once Noah saw us put our hands together and bow our heads, he got up on the bed, got on his knees and put his face flat on the bed. It was the funniest thing. After that, it was hard concentrating on the prayers while he climbed all over us, but I'm glad he was with us.