A Road Less Travelled

I have just one word for you- Fwhewh. Well, I don’t know that it’s so much a word as it is an approximation of a sound effect, but hey, it’s all yours.

This weekend was wild. I was already feeling like I needed some time to recover from my vacation and now I feel like I need a vacation to recover from our weekend. We started off the weekend on Friday with the mad “Getting Stuff Ready For the Next Couple Of Days” festivities. Our preparations were varied and much interrupted so we weren’t as prepared as we’d have liked. It made some parts of the long weekend interesting.

Part of our prep involved making bunches of food for Saturday which was the second quarterly GoPlay Peoria MiniCon. Quartely isn’t as impressive to say as annual, but it means the minicon happens more often so I guess we’ll stick with it. There weren’t as many people there as last time, but we hadn’t hyped it as much and it was Memorial Day weekend. I’m pretty sure everybody who came had a fun time. I certainly did so I call it a success. I took all the kids except Isaac home around dinner time and finished getting normal Sunday stuff ready.

Sunday evening we packed up camping stuff into the van and went to a friend’s house for a big church camp out. It was an insane idea, a whole lot of work and a ridiculous amount of fun. We had about 73 people there for the evening and then about 40 people stayed over night. Now, the funny thing is we have some serious weather watchers in our church. I mean, we were getting regular updates on what fronts were moving where and if I had asked I probably could have heard more about local tornados than I’d ever thought to care about. And yet somehow the torrential downpour that bucketed on us still took most of us by surprise. I still can’t figure that one out. The camping trip is a whole blog post waiting to happen so I won’t babble about it here, but it was a lot of wacky fun.

Monday morning started far, far, too early and then we went to Ralph’s house for lunch. We spent the day there playing games, drinking nifty drinks and eating steak. Mmmm… steak. Steak basted in fresh onion juice. Steak basted in fresh onion juice and then cooked by someone else and arranged artfully on my plate so all I had to do was sit down and eat it. Mmmm… Plus, I won one of the games we played and was a close second in the other. It was a good day. We left late and got home later which makes two late nights for some of us and three for others. We’re spending today recovering and getting the house in some semblance of order and then layout season starts in earnest. Looks like I went on vacation just in time.