Thank Heaven for the Port a Potty!

We are home from our RV adventure. Everything went well and we had a wonderful time. There was some rain but all in all, a successful trip. It was hard to come back to the heat and knowing that Monday morning meant life as usual.

As all Mom's and Grandma's know, when you travel with small children, what can happen will. Colin had tummy troubles all week the end of June. Julia was not feeling too well on Tuesday but there was no fever so we took her with us. To be honest, out of four adults involved, not one of us had the courage to tell her that she could not go on a trip that we have been planning for months. So, to explain my title.........she spent a lot of time in the RV bathroom on Wed and Thursday. Enough said but imagine being in the woods with one in that condition and no potty. Yeah...........

She did fine though, took a couple of naps and managed to perk up whenever there was something fun to do. We took them fishing. My great white hunter had bought them fishing poles last month and we stopped for worms and bobbers on the way. Now, neither had the patience required to actually sit and fish but, just by the shore there were all kinds of crawdads, so they spent quite a bit of time catching them. It was great fun and we crowned Julia as the "Crawdad Queen" because she got so good at putting her worm down and bringing them up!

The great white hunter took them to a site near where we camped to go horseback riding on Friday. I stayed at the camp to wait for the great white hunter son #2 and his wife plus DD and her husband. They had a great time!

We sat around waiting to see what the weather was going to do, and of course, it poured rain. Again, nice to have the RV to sit in while we read and played with the kids and DIL's dog, Bonnie. The great white hunter cooked steaks when the rain let up and we had a great Fourth of July dinner.

Here is a picture of one of the crawdads. Sure was ugly.



Here they are, getting ready to catch the big one. Too bad that it takes more than ten minutes of sitting still to catch a fish.



Now this part is a rant. While they were fishing and playing with the crawdads, I was walking around. I found this tiny cactus blooming in the middle of the rocky shore line of the lake. Wonderful, isn't it? Well, not more than three feet away from this beauty was a empty beer bottle. Someone had just threw it down when they got done and walked away. There was trash all around the lake, cans, water bottles, plastic bags, you name it. I would have carted some out but had nothing to put it in. Next time, I will take a garbage bag. My family believes that you leave the outdoors in better shape than you found it. So we pack out what we pack in and if need be, pack out what some other idiot left behind too. This was a beautiful lake with lots of folks enjoying it, why a few have to ruin it for us all is beyond me.