Total money pit but fun. The girls got to ride both an Elephant and a camel. Pretty wild. We also say an emu fight with a park person, eme vs two rakes. Crazy animal was kicking and hissing. Creepy red eyed demon bird. Katie did not like it. Can't say I blame her.
Sunday, July 27
Day five, wild animal park.
Road trip day three and four. Crater lake and Grants Pass
Snow ball fight in July? You gotta love Oregon!
Me and the GiRLies!
Jet Boat ride...
Camp songs before smores...yummy.
The fire look out on the rim of a lava cone at the Lave Lands. Super cool. Found lava rocks and katie managed to drop one on her finger and made it bleed. Everyone thought she was being beaten.
On trail rim.
So last night was super fun, not...After and exhausting day of swimming, swimming and swimming we were ready to crash. Except anna. Poor girl spent hours dry heaving until she finally puked her guts up around three am. Worst part of being in Kahneetah was being thirty miles from the store, poor baby had to rough it out. Thank goodness she felt well enough to continue to crater lake and onto grants pass. Which holey wow! Next time I totally want to take the boat to wizard island. Got eaten by bugs and even had a snow ball fight before dinner. Which was super good, only the service sucked! And the additional hour we spent touring rural grants pass at two am searching for the poorly marked camp ground. Their roads are labeled in a terrible fashion, beware. Thanks google maps, you suck! The grants pass police all in all were pretty decent. Once we found the damn yurt and spent 30 min trying to make the lock work it was ok, except for the fact that the futon that was supposed to fold down into a bed folded in 1/2 anytime you tired to lay on it. Must admitt we laughed so hard we nearly peed the only other bed in the place. Teresa managed to balance on one side and not get rolled into the middle and made into a futon burrito till morning. Total ass drag to get up and go on the jet boat ride that was really super fun. We barely made it in time, we were all super tired but the boat dude was cool and made everyone laugh that was cool.
On another note, Grants Pass is the birth place of Dutch Brothers and of course we paid homage.
We had a nice dinner at camp that night. Initially we had no pans and had to run a mere 20 miles to town to get a sauce pan. The worst part was I have no idea of whose fault it is that there were none. Made it hard to bitch about it. So I realized that is was Darren's, for either not packing them or not closing the roof box and having them fly out on the road. Bastard. The girls provided us with camp songs about jesus. They seem to have really stuck since god camp. I've been listening to them for hours and hours and hours in the car. Then they were super excited that some people we jamming jesus songs at the camp nearby and they were able to sing along.
Road Trip!
Super excited to have some time off and do a little R&R. Darren was so nice to put chubby the roof box on and fill it full of our crap. So off we go on wednesday up the mountain on our way to Kahneetah. The was this lady behind me that seemed to be a local as she was honking and beeping behind me up a storm. I figured she must have know the people at the berry stands that we were passing. As I looked in my rear view mirror I noticed her waving her arms and shouting at me to pull over. So I pull over and she runs to my window like a crazy person shouting that my roof box is open and that stuff has been falling out for miles. OOOPs....thanks Darren for not closing the box....Jeez. So after a return trip that involved the collecting pillows from the road and giving up on finding the chips we were finally on our way, with the roof box secure.
Anna was happy to swim...No arm twisting here.
Katie loved the little pool. I loved the fact that is was super warm...
The best part...CRASHED OUT.
We managed to spend the whole next day in the pool...I of course go my first sunburn of this trip. Totally forgot sunscreen. OOPS
Bummer pool side booze service, but none for me.
The girls say we love you daddy, kiss olaf.
Sunday, July 6
Tag...Katie's it
Seven things about katie...
#1 She has a crease in her nose, like it's been folded in 1/2. A perfect crease.
#2 She is part tasmanian devil. Can destroy a room in 10 seconds flat.
#3 Thinks she's going to cut her hair for locks of love. I cannot yet bear the thought. I worry that her spunk is tied to her hair. It is wild like her.
#4 She is totally binkee crazy and must still have one. I could not care less.
#5 She thinks she can swim and speak spanish. She is absolutely no good at either. Cannot do either. But we cannot convince her otherwise. She looks up from the bottom of the pool somewhat confused by her near drowning state.
#6 She is freakishly tall for her age and people always think that she is a poorly behaved 6 year old. Poor thing. She is pretty Naughty from time to time.
#7 When she sleeps with you she squishes so tight up against you, you don't know where she stops and you start. I love this. She is the best cuddler ever and I am over the moon for her.
Darren, snake charmer extraordinaire
When you look at them all on the swings it makes you think, oh how sweet, enjoying a day playing at the park. But if you look close Darren has discovered a snake and is hell bent on trying to poison himself. I am a little irritated at the prospect of having to kill this snake to take it to the hospital so that he can get the right anti-venom. Lucky for him today is a day that I sorta like him.
First he started with his shoe, waving his foot around in front of the snake trying to hypnotize it to do his bidding. Really he's goading it into striking. He discovered that this little snake was quite quick, leading him to find his forked snake stick. Unfortunately his stick was too big and the sweat little snake was able to slither through. At one point he was bending over getting closer and closer to the snake to try to take a picture. He had to be reminded of the iguana in Mexico that bit him when he was trying to get a close up it. Clamped down hard on the finger he was using to hold the banana to lure him closer. That did finally make him back up. He did try to pick the snake up with the stick to no avail. Then the snake started to chase him. He deserved that. Fortunately he escaped unscathed. No snake bites for him. That would have been a real bummer for him. Lucky Darren. He redeemed himself with a hearty game of lava monster with the kids. Smart Man.
Saturday, July 5
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