Goodbye, Summer 2010!

Last weekend Daddy, Mommy, Rebecca and Gabby joined a group camping trip in Payson. The trip was organized by the Church Fellowship Group. It last three days and two nights. The elevation of the camp site is 7700 ft above the sea level. While it is very hot in Phoenix, it is much cooler there. It rained every afternoon when they were there. On the first day when they arrived, the mountain was coved in clouds.

There were 11 families went camping. It was a carnival for the kids. Rebecca and her friends visited one tent after the other. They played games. Gabby loved to pick up the twigs and rocks on the ground and she was busying doing that. At night they lit a bonfire. The kids put marshmallows on twigs and heated them on the fire. Soon they left to play on their own. The parents then sat down around the bonfire to chat. They played a game in which two killers killed one person every night and the police and the public worked together to find out the killers. Daddy played this game, but Mommy didn’t. She was with Gabby.

On the second day they played by the Willow Lake. Daddy rented two rafting boats. So they did boating. They also did fishing, but caught no fish. They tied a piece of chicken meat to one end of a twig and caught some crawfish using this device. The caught crawfish didn’t live long. One crawfish lived till the next morning, but it died after Gabby and two other boys played with it for a couple of hours while the parents were busying cleaning up. It was sad. Mommy dug a hole and buried it. Before leaving for home they went to the Woods Canyon Lake and caught some more crawfish there. They put four in a water bottle and planned to pet them, but they died on the way home.

On the way home Rebecca said there was no place like home, but Gabby wanted to go back to the tent.

This was the last weekend in this summer. They came back home on Sunday night. Rebecca’s school started on the next day. Goodbye, summer 2010!