Oh my! That was a fun time! I can't believe I was ever worried about it. Madison was such a good girl. We left Thursday to drive up. What was a 5 hour drive ended up to be more like a 6 1/2 hour drive since we stopped for lunch and then had to make a poopy diaper stop! Madison only slept about an hour of our drive. She never took an afternoon nap either. She went to bed late and then ended up on the air matress with us at 4 am and up for the day at 5:30 on Friday.
It was a long Friday! It was so hot. We went tubing down the river. Tons of fun! Madison hated her life jacket, so since she was sitting with me I took it off her. I know bad mommy! I've been down the river many, many times, so I know the way it is and know that there was nothing horrible coming up. I will say though that that was the only time she went down the river. We got back to the camp site and Madison fought a morning nap and then I realized it was lunch time and the poor baby was hungry, so I fed her and then tried to nap again. Napping worked! She slept for about an hour and a half. After her nap, my friend's mom, kept Madison so I could tube down the river with Dan, Roberta & Al! It was a nice little tubing experience. Hot as all hell, but nice since my butt was in a cold river, but when we got out, oh my did the heat hit me! We had steaks, baked potato & corn on the cob for dinner. It was way too hot to sit around the fire that night so we just sat in a circle and talked.
It was another late night for Madison and she ended up on the air matress with us again at 5 am this time and we got to sleep until 6:00 am! 6 was just too early considering a wind storm hit at midnight causing us to be awake and securing everything in cars and taking the canopy apart because the wind was lifting it up off the ground. We were in the camper checking out the weather because a storm was suppose to be heading our way. We got the wind, but the storm dissipated before hitting us.
We had decided ahead of time not to tube down the river on Saturday because it was going to be ridiculous! Boy, did we make the right decision. They had a record of 2752 people that went down the river that day. The lines for the bus were so long that they were standing in the river waiting to get on the bus. Most tubers paid $11 for 1 trip down the river because of how long they had to wait in line to get on the bus. Not only that but now there was a bunch of drunken tubers littering the campground. Our site was across from the parking lot. Lots of fun there. I yelled at some drunk girl to get off of Roberta's car. Yep, she was sitting her butt right on the car along with her beer can. Because of this, Roberta and I got into it with some stupid boys who called us beached whales to security and threatened to bash in our car windows and other stuff. Well, we had a little chat with one of the owners and pointed these boys out to her (they were in the bar). She siad she would check their ID's and if they were of age she had no right to kick them out, but if they were not she would kick them out and off the campground. We went back to our site and move cars around. Within about 10 minutes the boys were at their car and taking off, so apparently the boys were under age drinking at the bar. Makes you go Hmmm.... How many others are under age in there? Oh, well! Saturday night we had BBQ Ribs and Peppers for dinner. Man, did we eat like Kings! We did our normal smores & pies over the fire and hung out there for a while. Madison stayed up long enough to eat a graham cracker while watching the fire.
Again, Madison ended up on the air matress with us. Baby girl just could sleep a full night in her pack n play in the tent. Can't blame her the birds get loud that early! Sunday we had to do our campsite break down. When we were all loaded up and ready to go, my wonderful truck wouldn't start, yet it had just started the night before when we moved it. We don't have any idea why, but we got jumpstarted and were on our way to breakfast in town. Breakfast at Bucky's, our camping staple! Then to get gas, the whole time we had Roberta and her parents around in case the truck wouldn't start again. It did though. Never turned it off after that until we got home. 5 1/2 hours later! Madison slept for a lot longer. She had barely taken any naps while we were camping and only slept about 8 hours to her normal 11, but never did she get totally cranky or crabby. She was the most pleasant baby ever.
So we spent our 4th of July, grocery shopping, doing laundry (lots of it), cleaning up the house, & a bunch of other miscellaneous things around the house. We never saw fireworks, though we heard them. Madison basically went right back to her normal routine once we got home, except getting up an hour earlier than normal. Hopefully that will come back quickly too!
Saturday we left for just chilling out
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