The Camping Trip

July 17-20 The Utah conglomerate of the family headed to North-Eastern Utah just inside the Utah border to Stateline Reservoir. We did have a couple of problems over the course of the weekend that might have included tent poles, trailer ball, rain threat at 4:00 a.m. (involved a gun), and millions of flying insects. Although James offered an interesting rendition that's not really how it happened.

We all made it there just fine, and contrary to original belief the Wright's tent poles made it too. You see when you have a big van and a trailer and several kids and food and gear for a week in the wilderness, details like 'where the poles are' are hard to remember. So as the inevitable dread of having no tent, we helped them set up their screen tent. It's a very spacious and nice screen tent - it does lack some privacy though. It also went through a wind burst last year and needed some TLC if you know what I mean (and if you don't it means - Tender Loving Care - you know?...Fragile...?). So as soon as we got the screen tent up held together literally with duct tape, yes you guessed it - the tent poles were found. But too late - the screen tent was staying.





We tried to get in a fair amount of relaxing. The water was cold and a couple of brave souls did actually get in the water and after you overcome the cold factor in about 20 seconds, the water was a lot of fun.




We did see a bit of sun too. I was wearing a bandanna the first day and got a line across my forehead - I had to wear a hat to work the next few days to cover my "tan line". And no, I was not the only one to get burnt. I had it pretty ease actually compared to a couple of other sun worshipers. Here is also a non-formal group picture.



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