We are not the seasoned campers we thought we were...

Mau is playing Bob The Builder. We are putting in a cheapo door at the bottom of the stairs to keep the cats out of the 2^nd floor. We got the door and stuff to make a jam of sorts to hang the thing from. First off, Mau cannot find his drill. He had looked everywhere. Of course we knew it was somewhere obvious but it is not my job to keep track of tools. I glanced in some random box in the garage and the drill was the only thing in it. Not obvious but found. Then I found the tape measure for him. He then procedes to get the tape measure stuck in a little groove between the floor and the wall…a spot not even close to where he was using it. I don’t get it either but he went to work and I saw it was still stuck. I simply removed it. Hmmm, maybe I should be in charge of this project?

All last week was beautiful weather. We had the “Creepy Campout” on the weekend so of course the weather got cold and rainy literally overnight. It rained Friday night but we got our tents up and made the best of it. We somehow kept a fire going but had to use one of those dining tents to sit under sometimes. Sleeping sucked ass because it was in the 40’s, raining and I just shivered all night. We brought extra blankets but it just wasn’t enough. The rain was annoying because it was drip (pause) drip drip drip, not consistant, so it kept all of us up.

We decided to take Sky to the tournament since we could be warm and dry for awhile and it was close to the campground. He got 3^rd place in forms and didn’t place in fighting. We got back to the campsite and the weather had improved. It was sunny and not terribly cold and was drying our tents out. I felt more motivated to decorate the site so we got to it and it turned out really good, definitely in the running for 1^st place which was a trophy with a witch on it! We let the kids carve the pumpkins so we knew we weren’t winning for those. This huge raccoon named Parky was brought in with sirens and hoopla for the announcing of the winners. He did not pick our site to win. We weren’t even in the list (which was quite long too). Parky can suck a nut since we didn’t win…the witch trophy? *cries*

Anyways, the site that won is the one I picked as my favorite so that was alright. The Trick-Or-Treating was awesome. Everyone was impressed/scared shitless of “Bob The Butler”, a really cool prop of Keith & Mary Jo’s. Mau dressed up in his trusty Zombie costume (it never fails…a damn good investment) and hung out in our neighbor’s fog machine smoke, making it impossible for anyone to obtain candy from either side without passing in between him, Bob and our site neighbor in a Scream costume. He even got hit on by a 60 year old lady (bait to pick up older women or just a damn good costume? You be the judge.). It was pretty cool and the kids got more candy than they do with regular “Trick-Or-Treating. My teeth are not sore really so I was able to indulge in quite a bit of it…no Dots but I managed a Twizzler and most candy bars with no nuts. I am definitely going to sign up for next year…it was really fun despite the insanely crappy weather.

We did pussy out for Saturday night. Unless you were sitting by the fire, you were freezing so Mau & I decided to go home, sleep in a warm bed then come back Sunday morning and take down the tent. Mary Jo & Keith braved it and said they were up most of the night. It started raining again at 7am so our tents were soaked and we had to pack up in the very cold rain.

It was rainy and wet Friday night and Mau & I were walking the dog and found a little group of skaters grinding the bike rack by the bathrooms. They had all just started skating and were very impressed by Mau being able to ollie. Mau had not brought his skateboard (due to the rain) so they shared with him. Awww, he made some little friends. I told him later, since he wanted to go find their campsite so they could skate again, that he’d better remember he is an old man now and looking for pre-teenage boys in a campground would probably be looked at as odd. I guess he can pass as a teenager so maybe parents wouldn’t see it like that but who knows. That place was crawling with park po-po so we didn’t want to find out.