Monday, July 12, 2010

Happy Birthday Again!!!

It was Brian and Ashlynn's Birthday this weekend. Brian is 26 years old and Ashlynn is now 5 years old.

Guess what and where we went?

Yeah we went camping at St. Paul Cliffs. Located in St. Paul Indiana. None of us had been camping for quite awhile. It was a last minute thing too. Tabetha/Daniel had some camping gear (they went one other time, last yr), Candace/Brian bought a little 2 man Jr. Tent (Jeremy slept in it alone). We borrowed another tent, sleeping bags lantern and a table from Richard and Lujuana. Thanks alot guys. Really appreciate it. LOL
I built the fire. It was a damn good one too, with what little wood we had. And finding twigs around wasn't easy. I got it going though and it worked for Hamburgers and hotdogs at supper time. Which was after 7pm cause the kids swam all day. Then we made smores and marshmellows.



Every took a break from swimming to eat some lunch.









Adrian even was jumping. He went from the 20-30 ft cliff, right off the 40-50 ft cliff and off the side on a ZipLine. He loved it. Not scared of anything. Adrian got burnt later in the evening. He fell into the firepit and hit the rim. Burnt line on his stomach and then a few places on his arms, but the worst was his right hand. He did get a blister on it and he was worried about baseball, says he's the best one on the team, what are they going to do.

Everyone had a really good time. Swimming and floating and of course jumping.
Alden didn't do any jumping. We were lucky to get him in the water. Brian had to throw him in. He just wanted to float around with somebody, not alone. He preferred the biggest raft.
Even Ashlynn went off the 20-30 ft cliff. Yes she was scared at first, but at least she did it. After that Tyla said she couldn't let a 5 yr old show her up, so Tyla jumped too.

They played Volley Ball down by the beach area. It was Candace/Jeremy/Tyla on one side and on the other was Brian/Adrian/Tabetha. Not sure what the scores were. While they played, Ashlynn was building a sand Castle. She didn't care as long as they didn't hit her with the ball (and they were using a beach ball, no volley ball).
Alden got a piggy back ride on the way back to campsite. He got a booboo on his foot. Kept sounding
like a horse. Heeeee, Heeeeee. LOL.
Then it was onto Football out front of the fire pit.
And of course there was Cornhole.

The girls thought they would be funny and tell Alden to go tell daddy Happy Birthday and then smear cake in his face. Well it backfired and they were the ones who got the cake in the face.

They swam on Sunday for awhile and then ate some lunch and started taking down the rest of our camp stuff. The kids had a really good time and Candace said they were all asleep before they even hit the highway.
I was never so glad to leave a place like I wanted to from this place. Everything was cool after we got all the tents and everything set up and the kids went to go swim. But later on in the evening there were some drunks down the way from us. They were up til 4am. drinking and cursing at each other. Yelling at the top of their lungs. Very Vulgar language. I came out of my tent around 2:30am and they had radio up loud, they were fighting and arguing. Something about a gun was brought up. Tents were being taken down and vehicles speeding off. So around 3am me and Candace finally walked down to the office to report them. We even woke up Tabetha, so we could use her phone to call the place we were at. They weren't anywhere to be found up at the office and no one was answering the phone. We were warned of them before we set up camp. But this was ridiculous. I did not sleep at all, all night long. After the owner of the place finally came to talk to me about the situation, he told me that he would take care of us. I was thinking maybe give our money back. We left before we had a chance to talk. I won't be going back there anytime soon.
Until next time, hope all is well. Keep in touch.