Grandparents Camp

So we went down to the Porter's for the 4th and left our kids there for the following week for the first annual Grandparents Camp. From a parents perspective it was wonderful. Although we had Bennett with us, we slept in to the furthest extent of the law and our house stayed reasonably clean (aside from the places where I frequented most, Computer Desk, Fridge, Recliner...) Amanda was in the middle of helping a friend move and that took a few days, but by Wednesday, we were planning all sorts of trips we could take without kids with the Harwards.

Our Pie-in-the-Sky first pick was driving to see the Hill Cumorah Pageant 11 hours away. However, after a 3 hour drive back from Louisville with Addie and Bennett tag team Screaming for 3 hours, that plan was quickly nixed.

So we pared back to just going to Kirtland only 6 hours away, but when we found out that Steve had a late meeting on Thursday night, that plan got scrapped as we wouldn't have enough time to pick up the kids early Saturday morning.

So we searched for something fun to do in the state of Indiana, and we quickly considered going to the Dunes up on Lake Michigan or driving down to Indianapolis and getting hotel rooms and haning out and doing stuff down there.

However, we then learned that Sarah remembered that she had to attend a relief society birthday party on Friday afternoon so those ideas got thrown out and we ended up using this summer's buzzword and had ourselves a little "Staycation" where we played Monopoly on Thursday Night, woke up early friday and went golfing, and then got a babysitter for the remaining two monkeys and were completely and totally free for 3 hours as we tubed down Wildcat Creek. It was a lot of fun. We ran some pretty serious rapids that knocked Steve off his tube and he cracked his skull in 1' of water.

Yeah, we live the exciting life.

This morning we drove through apocalyptical torrents of rain to pick the kids up south of Indianapolis and we were actually thrilled to see them...until about 3 hours after we got them home and Amanda and I locked ourselves in our bedroom where were hastily drew up the negotions for the next Grandparents camp that can't come soon enough.