Tuesday

We loved camping in the trailer.  It was so nice to have a refrigerator and air conditioning.  We all slept great.  The kids probably thought John and I slept too well.  We would all be asleep by 10 and John and I would sleep until 8.  The kids would be in bed awake waiting for us to wake up.  I nearly came unglued one morning when Ben set his alarm clock for 7 a.m.

Although we had a perfectly good table and air conditioning inside, the kids preferred eating at the picnic table outside.  

Annie loved "playing dirt" at the camp site.  She spent most of the week looking like Pig Pen.

 As we headed to the beach the third morning we met a swarm of people leaving the beach talking about how terrible the flies were.  We had encountered the flies the previous days but with bug sprays and plenty of time in the water, we still had fun in spite of them.  However, we didn't even make it to the beach before they started biting us this morning.  We decided to go to the pool instead.

Everyone had fun playing in the pool with Daddy while I sat on the side and took pictures.  It was too cold for me.

 "Playing dirt."

 The flies usually weren't bad in the evenings, but on the third day only a few people decided to try.  For a while, we were the only people on the beach.

 John took this picture of me riding waves.

And then John rode some waves.

 Mollie was my helper and gave Annie her bath while I cooked supper.  Although the trailer only heats 6 gallons of water at a time and has a tiny bathtub/shower, we all bathed in the trailer rather than treking with all our gear to the bathhouse.

Clean girls hanging out in Ben's top bunk.