What a wonderful weekend was had by the Ward family.
RAW had the bright idea to go camping on this holiday weekend. Normally we avoid the camping scene on weekends like this cause it is hard to get a spot but RAW suggested we go to Chain of Lakes State Park which is 10 miles from home (and with gas at $3.18 a gal, an affordable trip). We had never camped here before but now plan on doing it more often.
We set up camp on Thursday morning where it was first come first served and got the perfect site. Though we were weren’t planning of camping Thursday night we did go there and ate Taco Bell at the site.
On Friday I heard from Kathy about her finally getting a job, hopefully her dream job but I couldn’t get her off the phone and I had to get to the site because RAW invited Barb and her family over for dinner. Scramble, scramble, kind of wished we could of done that on Saturday but oh well it worked out. It was a nice visit and our second attempt at entertaining people. The first was a month or so ago with Barb and Jim the neighbors.
We had a really nice campsite on the lake and the weather was perfect. It was so nice and refreshing to just sit at the site and relax. On Saturday we went home to get some more provisions and to visit with Cloudy. I turned on the TV to watch the latest on hurricane Katrina and the downfall of New Orleans (btw, it was last November that I had my Macromedia conference in New Orleans at the conference center where a lot of evacuees were barely surviving.) I felt the stress of that horrible situation come back so I turned off the TV and headed back to paradise.
On Sunday we went hiking lead by my nature girl Hollace and just enjoyed the park. We debated on whether or not to stay until Monday but decided we better get back to home.
Today we went to Deb’s house for a picnic. Hollace got to go swimming. It was a nice time.
All in all it was a nice fulfilling weekend.