4th of July Weekend

For 4th of July weekend, we went camping at Crane Prairie with Cody's parents. Cody got off work at noon so he could pack the car and be ready to leave when Chelsea got off work at 2pm. We kissed Kitty goodbye and hurried to head of of town to make the 4 1/2 hour drive.

When we pulled into the campground, we saw a sign that read "dogs on leash at all times". If Roxy could read, I am sure she would have insisted we turn around and find another campground! Once we got to our site, Cody grabbed Roxy's cable, let her out of the truck, tied the cable to the tree and hooked her up. She broke the leash law for no more than 30 seconds. As Cody was getting Roxy leashed up, the camp host drove up and said, "Hey. Your dog has to be on a leash. This is your 1st warning. Next time I have the call the sheriff." Keep in mind that by the time he said this, Roxy was already on her leash! That put a bad taste in Cody's mouth but he shook it off and we started unpacking. First step: Set up the tent and make our beds. This is when we learned Cody only brought ONE sleeping bad! Oops :o) We were able to scrounge up an extra sleeping bag from Roger (Uncle Neal and Rog changed their plans last minute and decided to camp with us when they got the report that said ocean was suppose to be too rough to take the boat out). Well, we were thankful Roger let us borrow his sleeping bag but we were a little nervous about where this camping trip was headed. 2 strikes in the first 30 minutes was not good odds!

We spent most of the weekend out on the boat. Cody and Loren fished while Chelsea and Kim caught some rays. Unfortunately for Chelsea, she did more sun-burning than sun-tanning! Sabby and Roxy got lots of swimming in and several walks to ease the pain of being leashed up at camp. To Cody's disbelief, Chelsea and Kim even started working on his T-Shirt blanked he has been requesting for 4+ years! Our evenings were spent around the campfire enjoying some of Kim's delicious desserts and discussing some of Cody's childhood. Oh, what a great weekend we ended up having. Too bad we don't have any photos to share...Chelsea forgot the camera!