Weekend of Adventure

You can't say that my life is boring.

After the work troubles earlier in the week, I fled the office at 4pm on the dot and didn't look back. I think there was footsteps behind me of people chasing me down the hall, but I deny any evidence I knew they were there. That garbage can jumped out behind me to trip them of its own accord, honest.

So Friday evening we packed up the car and headed down to Brockville. We planned to sleep in a tent in the backyard of Kim's parent's place and once we got there I began setting the tent up. Except.... there's no poles. Tent? Check. Pegs? Check. Poles? Uh oh. Ok, plan B. We pack up our tent and get her parent's tent from the basement. Open it up to set it up and what do we find? Two bags of tent poles. Well then, mystery solved.

The tent is setup along with Kim's sister Tammy's tent where her and her friend will be sleeping and we get ready for bed. Just one small detail... we didn't check the weather.

So anyways, did you hear about the tropical storm coming through the area Friday night? Neither did we until it started pouring. And man, did it pour. Kim and I were dry but the pattering of the rain and flashes of lightning kept us awake so we decided to move into the house where we couple steal the spare room. That was about 3am. Tammy and Keri on the other hand, didn't have that option due to the dogs they had with them and their smaller tent got soaked through.

Soggy Saturday morning dawned and despite being tired I had to get up to go to a breakfast thing at the Church with Kim's dad Mike. Everyone was pretty exhausted for the whole day due the effects of the storm the night before, so it was a quiet day of visiting and napping. As bedtime approached with good weather outside I thought we would try the tent again but Kim convinced me to sleep in the spare room again. Well, it was hot in there 'cause the window couldn't open and I tossed and turned all night. And I had to get up early again(!) so I could go play golf with my father. I was tired but fortunately there was not a deficit of caffinated drinks for me to choose from. *burp*

In the afternoon we had Kim's birthday party and she finally got her presents. She was very happy with the new Nintendo DS I bought for her with Tetris and Super Mario Bros games.

Tired, achey, but content, we drove home Sunday evening. Next weekend, we stay home to recuperate!