We started off our weekend by catching up with some college friends. Chris and Lisa Troxel and their beautiful family visited us from Port Huron on their way to a camping trip in Roscommon,MI. While they were visiting their car decided not to start which sort of threw off their plans, but gave us the chance to spend more time with them. It is always fun to have the opportunity to chat with another family in the ministry and to have the opportunity to share the joys as well as the hardships of church work. I feel that it is always encouraging and uplifting.
We spent the majority of the weekend with the Burch family. We invited them to join us for one last camping adventure before sending the kids off to school and welcoming the colder fall weather. However; it seemed that fall kept threatening to sneak in early. In between bursts of rain and periodic thunderstorms, we managed to make the best of the weekend. We were told that our water trampoline would arrive Friday morning, which would be the perfect water activity for the children. The Burch family arrived as planned on Friday evening…but the trampoline did not. We received a call informing us that it was difficult to assemble and that it would arrive on Saturday “first” thing in the morning. We figured that would be all right, it would give the children all of Saturday plus Sunday afternoon to enjoy using the water trampoline. The children enjoyed running around, riding bikes and playing in the shallow…not so mucky part of the water. As the darkness took over, we decided to surprise the children, we had a luminary for each child to release. They were SO excited! They eagerly got their PJs on and we walked to the dock to release our luminaries. They were a fun treat and were beautiful in the night sky!
Friday evening it appeared that the rain would not invade our camping so we decided to sleep in our tents. It was a beautiful night for camping and everyone stayed dry!
Saturday we woke up enjoyed breakfast and watched as the rain began to move in. The children were still excited to play on our water trampoline…but as 10:30 and then 11:00 rolled around, we realized that our idea of “first thing in the morning” may not be the same as the man who was selling us the trampoline. We decided to call him. He informed us that a new top had arrived for our trampoline. He would be assembling the trampoline and would probably have it out to our house by around 3 or 4. Around 11:30, the rain decided to break, so Jason and Brad decided to take the oldest children(Micah and Rachael) for a canoe trip down the Betsie River. They had a great time and were extremely ready for lunch when they arrived back home around 1:30.
We enjoyed a yummy lunch and continued playing. While waiting for the trampoline, Jason and Brad pulled out the windsurfers and decided to give windsurfing a try. The children absolutely loved playing on the windsurf boards. As dinner time rolled around, we were pretty certain that the trampoline would not be arriving as originally promised. We ate dinner, had the children get ready for bed and than decided to watch Swiss Family Robinson together. What a fun movie! The children loved it! When the movie was over, we realized that it was raining pretty hard again, so we all decided to sleep inside instead of using out tents. We figured we would all be slightly less moody at church in the morning.
Sunday morning, we woke up early and got all the children ready for church. I received a call from the Trampoline man informing me that they were having difficulty getting the new top onto the trampoline. He assured me that they would have it on and have it delivered to us sometime before the day was done. We were hoping that we would arrive home from church to find the trampoline in the water, but that was not the case. The children enjoyed playing together while we took down the tents. A little later in the afternoon, the Barley family joined us for a cookout and a few games of the play station trivial game called Buzz. We had a great time…but there was still no sign of our water trampoline, and by the time we were finished it would have been too dark and too cold to enjoy a water trampoline anyway. We had a fantastic weekend hanging out with some wonderful families from church…but we never did see the trampoline. We are hoping that maybe by next Labor Day weekend, we will have the trampoline for the children to play on!
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