Just a quick little update here...
We finished up first session with a great Beach Party, Council Fire, Banquet and Dance!! On Friday night my mom's side of the family all came down to Lesterville for a weekend at the Farm! 7 of the 9 grandkids are all at camp this session, so we all got together before they were dropped off at camp. My mom, her two sisters, my grandma, and all but one cousin and my brother were in town. On Saturday we did a big float trip from Camp down to Kyle's Bluff (our family river area). The mom's had left a car at the river in the morning with lunch waiting in it so we had lunch and hung out by the river for the whole day! It was bright, sunny, and hot!
Since it was a Saturday the river was a little crazy. And by a little crazy I mean all the trashy, drunk rednecks float the river and say obscene things and use obscene language in front of any company present; kids included. And it never fails...they pull up their canoe/pontoon within feet, sometimes inches, from where we are sitting on the river bank. There is a WHOLE big gravel bar 150-200 yards long and they park their canoe at our feet, EVERY SINGLE TIME. There is a cool jump you can do off the bluffs across the river from our spot (but you have to park on the gravel bar), so when people see others up there jumping they always stop to participate. When no one is up there jumping, people usually don't see the potential up there and they pass right by! Anyway...it was still a great day and great float!
On Sunday all the kids got dropped off at camp and the session began! We have:
Kelly (17)- my sister...her 6th year at camp and 3rd year working in the kitchen
Christopher (17)- cousin...10th year at camp and 4th year in the kitchen
Nicholas (13?)- cousin...6th year at camp he's in the Crow cabin
Anna (11)- cousin...4th year at camp and in the Poky Right cabin
Jack (14)- cousin...3rd year at camp in the Lodge Left cabin
Mike (11)- cousin...2nd year at camp in the Shawnee cabin
So it's a big family affair!
Thankfully, since the first day of second session the weather has been absolutely GORGEOUS. It has been warm but the humidity has been so low it is very comfortable. It is actually getting to be sweatshirt/pant weather at night...just the way it should be down here! Hopefully it will keep up for the next few days!!
We have been on high alert for Swine Flu down here. A lot of summer camps have recently been shut down from Swine Flu including a very big Jewish camp from St. Louis. Last session we were fine so we have been monitoring the new kids down here second session to make sure we steer clear of it. All the kids had their temperatures taken and we have Purell sitting everywhere. So far so good...
And in other big news recently I became an aunt on Sunday afternoon!! Taylor's sister Catherine and her husband John had their first baby, John Joseph Wiesehan IV (Baby Jack). I got a few pictures in an email, but I can't wait for more. Hopefully I'll get to see him in August!
Okay, I'm off to bed.
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