Camping

This weekend was spent in Rocky Mountain National Park at the Glaciar Basin campground. Randy insisted it would be a breeze to set up since it was a pull in site. Well, it would have been if there was not a pinetree in the way. We ended up gouging the foot for the one awning pole. Not a real big deal. The weather was cloudy and cool the entire weekend. Saturday we went to Grand Lake, had lunch(K ordered spicy food and was quite amusing to watch as she downed a pitcher of water), we puttered around at the lake while Randy fished and then went back to the campground. The kids loved the fact that Grand Lake had cell phone service. Randy fished some more and the kids and I built a fire. Everyone was so full from lunch that I did not have to cook(score!). Randy agreed to putting up the tent since it was a long weekend. Matt was very happy about this, even retained a decent mood when K announced she was spending the night in the tent also. Kristen has never tent camped and wanted to try it. It lasted 3 hours. At 12:04 am, she came in the camper and said, I'm cold. No big shock there. Sunday, we hung out at the campground until about 4pm listening to the whining since this was funpark day. Thunderstorms, rain and generally not so nice weather. Kristen even took a 3 hour nap in the tent. Went out for dinner(pizza) and then dropped Randy at Lake Estes and the kids and I headed to the funpark. After Kristen's second trip on the bumper boats, she looked kind of green and said my stomach hurts. Ruh-roh. Picked up Randy and headed back to the campground where she promptly fell asleep at 8pm. I contemplated just taking her home, but knew the road from E.P. to home was twistier than the ride to the campground. Today her stomach was not any better so while the rest of us had grilled steak, she had rice. Not happy about not being allowed to have chocolate or icecream. Matt had to do a huge homework assignment for evil government teacher who assigned this to be done over Labor Day Weekend. He got the assignment Friday. Overall, a good weekend. Very evident how necessary it is to unplug them every once in a while.