That's not good...

Camping did the trick. It rained. It rained hard and all night but we lucked out because it only rained after we were in our tents and the sun came out in the morning so we were able to drag the tents out of the woods to dry them out before packing up.

I am not sure what the highlight of the camping weekend was. I don’t know if it was the invigorating mountain bike trail ride, the dangerous night bike ride to look for the “headless horseman” Mau claims he saw near the horse loop (we didn’t find him), the fabulous site we got this time (it was very cool and secluded), the swarm of bees we battled with one casualty (poor Sky), or Mau getting extremely drunk and wandering off causing us to form a late night search party where we found him passed out on the playground slide. Yes, it is probably that one. He claims to have been star gazing. It was overcast. We led a staggering Mau back to the campsite where he was very confused as to which tent was his, tried to enter a couple then yelled a few obscenities as we directed him to the correct one. The kids loved it and I’m sure the story is being told at Sky’s school today, hopefully not to any teachers.

I love my car so much and spending money on more car repairs just makes me giddy! I have noticed it was acting funky for awhile now but everyone told me I was just being paranoid. It wasn’t slipping or lurching into gear so I knew it wasn’t the transmission or timing belt but it was tugging while going uphill. It really acted up being loaded down with camping gear and bikes so we took it in thinking it might be the spark plugs. Yep. The one was totally shot. Not that we know anything about changing spark plugs but I would think that would be a fairly cheap repair. Sure if you’re not us I suppose. We needed the spark plugs, wires and they did a tune-up for a cool $200. I think that puts us at about $1000 we have sunk into the car in the past 2 months.