A few of us headed off bright and early to catch the Park Point garage sales. Amanda, Shannon, and I were not to be detered by strong winds and rain. Garage saling we went.
The rest of the crew joined us at various times times Friday and the day ended an inpromput pizza party in the car and the ever popular s'mores.
The majority of us slept in one tent with a second tent being used as a storage tent. Nothing beats a slumber party. Except perhaps, a bedtime story; which was what was heard, from Stephanie and Lance's tent.
A sheltered breakfast was had as the rainy weather continued. Picture time at Jay Cooke State Park near the suspension bridge was had before heading into town. Some time was spent out at Park Point beach and then a birthday lunch for Shannon was had at Grandma's.
Camp was taken down. It was on the rainy side with more rain in the forecast.
A big thank you to Barrett, who, on the home front, converted the garage with a few nails into a perfect sheltered are to hang tents to dry.
These camping times are really special to me for various reasons. I do take some pride in coordinating and planning camping trips for a significant group of people. Spending quality time with this group of people holds the biggest reward for me. While we started working side by side for 8 hours a day, we have all moved on to different positions within the company. These camping trips provide time for relaxing and spending some time in each others company just "being".
People's lives are always changing and it's important to fill your's with good times and memories. Next year promises to be different. Abby and Lindsay have both moved to different parts of the U.S. since this camping trip a short month ago. Was this the last group camping trip, will it be San Fransciso next year or can one even camp in Chicago? We shall see. No matter what comes next year though, these past camping trips still happened and still hold value as good good times and for that I am very happy.
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