I’m still here!
I haven’t blogged since 6/23. I have been compiling my list of why I haven’t written and I’ve come up with the following:
1. Too hot;
2. Son’s baseball league playoffs;
3. Busy mentally preparing my camping to-do list.
Too hot: If anyone has been following the weather in Minnesota, you will know that it has been usually cool. The past couple of days have been in the 80’s and I’m complaining that it is too hot! Actually, it has been really humid, so my complaint is probably legitimate. We haven’t had working air conditioning until yesterday morning (repair man was backed up 3 weeks - the date of the last warm day). So now, I don’t have that excuse.
Baseball Playoffs: If you want to see exciting baseball, check out the nearest ballpark for league playoffs. Professional ballplayers aren’t as dedicated to baseball as 10, 11 and 12 year old ballplayers, in my opinion. This is baseball at its best. Tonight will decide our park’s champion team. It will be an exciting game and I hope my son’s team wins!
Camping trip preparation: We are leaving tomorrow morning for a camping trip at Nugget Lake County Park in Wisconsin. If you remember the news back at the end of April, smart people figured out that a meteor hit that spot in Wisconsin. Interesting rock formation were the result, along with a huge depression in the ground. Read about the meteor strike, including great photos) here. We will also drive around the Lake Pepin part of the Mississippi River and hopefully see the Grand Excursion 2004 flotilla and bald eagles. Here is the letter I wrote to the four teenagers(our two kids, plus two cousins) we are taking on the camping trip:
Dear Brittney, Brianna, Erik and Kristy,
Here are some links for you to check out! Our trip will be very fun, even if it is a day shorter. Study the information below - there will be a quiz. (ha ha!)
What clothes should I bring?
What are the rules at the campground?
How will we fit into one car? We don’t! We will take the van and the truck. Stop worrying, Brianna.
Where are we going?
Where will we watch fireworks?
Will there be anything interesting to see?
See you Friday morning!
Love,
Theresa
So there are my excuses. I am sure to have things to write about when we return.
Hello from Colorado! I hope you had fun on your camping trip — our family loves camping also. Regarding your visit to Lake Pepin in Wisconsin, Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote about it in her first or second book in the Little House series, I think! Maybe you already knew that.
I don’t blog much myself in the summer — too many things to do, and arguments to break up! Cheers …