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I shall start with the morning after I last posted… <shrug>
I woke up, worked on last minute packing, and then realized it was my birthday. The phone rang and soon after Mom told me that Maggie had a fever and she couldn’t come. I finished getting stuff together and then sat in the van crying and feeling sorry for myself and Maggie. I hadn’t forgotten to pack sock puppet Maggie so on the way to the UP I took many silly pictures of her and my siblings.
We got to the camp grounds before the Hubbards and after we set up I took more silly pictures of Maggie. She helped stir the chili and wash eggs.
The Hubbards got there two hours after us and we all got eaten alive be mosquitoes. Have you ever eaten fried mosquito? Well I have.
Friday morning we dawdled around the campsite and took hours to get ready. Around 11a.m. we started what was supposed to be a 4 mile hike but we’re pretty sure it was at least 5. Us girls got way ahead of everybody else so we sat down on a bridge and gorged ourselves on trail mix. I did my best to drive peeple crazy by singing along to silly songs on “Fuss Budget” the MP3 player. (It isn’t called Fuss Budget because it’s fussy but because the name sounds weird.) Suddenly I heard Dad yelling at me about how we shouldn’t have gotten so far ahead (mainly because poor Mrs. Hubbard wasn’t doing well and was far behind.) He soon arrived with a gaggle of crazy little kids and we were sent off with instructions to stay close together and hold onto the littlest ones. I ended up carrying Benjamin for what seemed like a mile but I bet it was less.
Then we went back to the campsite and got eaten alive by mosquitoes again. Oooo goody!
Saturday we went on a short hike and were eaten alive by mosquitoes. That night I burned Peeps in the campfire. Stephen Hubbard thought I was crazy because I was “wasting” the Peeps. #1 do I really need to eat more Peeps? No. #2 it’s more fun to burn them than to eat them. #3 it drives Stephen crazy so why wouldn’t I do it?
Sunday morning we went to church. I really wish we hadn’t. Since it was Pentecost there was a hokey emphasis on the whole “power of the Holy Spirit”. Like this… “We confess the sin of denying ourselves the power of the Holy Spirit” and then we said the same thing in different ways. I started fading out toward the end… There was a luke-warm sermon that didn’t have real gospel and didn’t have any law unless you count saying “it would be nice if you did……” as law. The pianist interrupted the blessing because the pastor had forgotten to let her give out announcements before the service was over… ‘Nuff said.
In the afternoon we drove around the UP on various dirt roads and highways and looked at tons of trees. We all looked for meese but we never saw any. We listened to a Canadian country music station. It was pretty funny to hear someone with a French accent on a country station. For dinner us scandalous Horners ate out at the “Bear Trap” and watched the pathetic end of the Indy 500.
Then we all went back to the campsite and were eaten alive by mosquitoes.
Monday morning we packed up and left. On our way home we stopped at a couple little scenic view thingies and weren’t eaten alive by mosquitoes.
At home we weren’t eaten alive by mosquitoes and had fun smirking at the Lucky Charms on our counter.
<<RANDOM>>Oly’anna Stuckwisch’s “God family”(Ish can’t speel their last name) stayed here while we were gone and they *NEEDED* those lucky charms. Aaaaawwww!
Yesterday Nicolai wouldn’t stop talking about all the stuphph Matt said. I haven’t even met Matt and he’s already driving me insane!!!! What talent. <rolls eyes>
On Wednesday I played Evening Prayer at church and as I was playing the intro to the Magnificat the organ started screaming at me!!! We think it was overheated…
At some point during the trip we visited the park gift store and saw a freaky rat in overalls. I still haven’t recovered from the scariness of it. <shudder> Also throughout the trip we worked our way through “Anan’s Random Access Box of Interpretations and Expressions”. I feel like a CD millionaire! Now I don’t have to listen to “High Maintenance Woman” and the Turnip Greens song over and over again any more!!! Woot!
Edited on: June 02nd, 2007 12:12 am
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