About a week and a half ago, we packed up the van and headed back to Illinois. It was the first of two road trips we were planning on doing within 2 weeks, and this first one included dropping off Marcus at church camp (his first experience with an overnight camp). I'm up at a horribly early time-unable to sleep thanks to my night shift schedule, so you are blessed with just about every. single. picture. I took. Have fun!
Our plan was for a lunch stop at the first rest area in Illinois. Plans foiled! That rest area was closed. No worries. We found ourselves a park in Oakwood. It was a cute little park, with a nice pavilion and play area. Kella seemed to enjoy herself.
The fenced in play area had some cool toys the kids hadn't played with before-like these bouncing horses.
Someone stood alone, all by herself. (and hasn't since then)
This tree had some awesome branches.
Liam tackled the slide.
Old school merry-go-round. Marcus got there first. He said, "I can't make it work." I said, "You have to run and then jump on." Marcus stood back, ran towards the merry-go-round and then jumped on. My bad. "Marcus, I mean you have to push the merry-go-round and then jump on." It worked better after that. The boys got Andy to push them and had fun going fast. Liam did not follow the "hold on tight" directions and ended up shooting off the merry-go-round into the dirt. May have gotten a slight bloody nose from that, but, got right back on for another ride. I have to include, just for memory's sake, that bathroom breaks poised a slight problem here. What park locks their bathroom doors? Thank goodness that the only kids that had to go were boys. Let's just say that some "artwork" was created on the side of the park building that day.
Right. Like 5 kids would sit still for a cute photo.
This is what the car looks like when we go anywhere.
Got to camp safely, and Marcus unloaded his stuff.
a boy and his bunk
Two Shaffer on Shaffer games of tetherball
and Liam put every rock he could find in his pocket
On to Grammy Linda's and Grandpa Jerry's for the next few days. They have some cool blocks to build with. Cale created this.
with the architect. It was actually his second design of the evening. I missed getting his picture with the first one, so he made this one for me. Sweet!
End day one.
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