August 12, 2008
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Just a little rain...
In honor of my brother-in-law teasing us that we are being "scared off by a little rain" I thought I would show you our flooded vacation.
(the pics are awful due to it being at dusk and rainy, but you will get the idea)
The road going into the family camping property. Just a little rain!
Standing on the hilly part of the property where our camper usually goes. All of this is typically grass . See the porta potty? It was floating all, but one corner.
Um, what are we going to do with this before it goes floating into the main part of the lake? It was leaning forward enough that the spring action door was held open.
Hmm.... open it up and let's see what's inside. Just a little rain!
No I don't love the porta potty that much to pose like that. I was actually holding it still while it floated.
See the little patch of grass to the right? That is typically uphill where we put our camper. The rest should not be under water!
Here is all that is left of the family property. The porta potty people said we needed to get the potty to higher ground, but seeing that this was all that was left to the property with more rain coming in all week we.....
...took a hold of it and floated it down the road for the porta potty company to come pick it up. No camping vacation this year.
At least the porta potty company was kind enough to not charge us this year for the rental of the potty. 
After we did the potty job (does this count Kimmy for getting closer as a family? lol) we carried the kids into the property so they could see it for themselves and understand why we were not camping this year. It wasn't pitch black out like it shows here...that was just the flash.
Caleb giggled the entire way in because of how high the water was. I wish I had his laughter on video!
Here they are on higher ground looking over the water just beneath them. We said goodnight and went back home after our deed was done. Time to make other plans now for some family fun.
If you are curious enough you can go back earlier in my blog and see pics of us camping on the family property for comparison.
Comments (9)
Bummer. This is not good. Hope you guys are finding other fun things to do with your vacation time!
you have gotten really good with photo shop!!!
I was there just a couple weeks ago and parked the boat of f to the left, where you creativly coverd with water, ran all over the property, picked blue berries, Aldan even used the PP with no floating issues.
Just a little rain.....
@dlovejoy21 - </p You are hilarious!!! I don't even own photo shop!
Wow.. in the water with a floating porta potty.. I'm not sure I'm that brave! LOL! I'd be afraid something else would be floating out!
Yeah, I'd say that qualifies as "a little" water!! WOW!!! Hope you can find something else fun to do on your vacation.
At least you were able to get one evening's worth of adventure out of the "little bit of water" there!
I hope you find something fun and memorable to do with the kiddos.
So excited about the baby! Wishing you lots of happiness and praying for smoothness in the adoption details.
Alesha
At least you have a great attitude about it all!
Just got caught up with your news a few posts back!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Praise God!!!!! ; )
Sorry you trip got rained out. At least it was only a "little" rain, LOL. Hope the kids weren't too disappointed. Us guys like to throw a blanket over the dining room table and "camp" there. It's pretty fun! Of course, there's only 3 of us. Hope the rest of your vacation holds special memories. This is one they will always remember.