RV Trial Run and a Birthday

We took our newly renovated RV on her maiden voyage.  We still can't believe we have a camper of our own and as we lay in bed the first night we could hardly believe that this is actually ours...God's, of course.  We wanted to make sure if everything was working properly before going camping next weekend with the church...plus yours truly was having a birthday on Friday.  We left on Thursday evening because we needed to be home for the weekend. We decided to just go locally and Oscar Scherer State Park had one sight open.  Oscar Scherer Park is only about 20 minutes from home so we knew if we ran into major problems, we weren't far from help.  

Delays... how do you deal with delays?  Delays try my patience like little else. Delays make me cry out to God to help me have God-like responses to them.  That's probably why He allows me to have so many, He knows He will get some of my time and attention!

Our first delay was neighbors stopping by to 'chat'.... as much as we love our neighbors, it can be hard to get things done sometimes.  We have several needy neighbors (three right now) with a lot of major needs that God has brought into our lives and sometimes it can be hard to discern when to have time to talk and when we have to move along.  We are open to input from anyone who can give us some advice in this area.

Second delay:  refrigerator suddenly appeared not to be cooling.   Long story shortened: it just needed several hours to cool things down.

Third delay:  we borrowed JR's dad's truck to pull the RV with and found out the light hook-ups didn't work quite right so we had to borrow his brother's truck.  

As evening rapidly approached we were finally road ready.  Thankfully we didn't have far to go and were absolutely delighted with how quickly we were 'set up' and ready to settle in.  We reserved the last spot the park had so they gave us a handicap spot which was really nice with a little extra room.  It is quite primitive there but had lots of bathhouse facilities and things were clean.  (Clean, I like.) Even though we didn't need their bath facilities I still like clean. We backed into our little resort between the palmetto bushes and pine trees.

Thankfully everything was intact when we arrived and here is a little tour of our new 'home' away from home:

If you remember from older posts a lot of work has gone into this 'home'.  We enjoyed working on it but were getting quite tired of it, too.  It's not finished yet but I am sure there will always be things we can improve on it.  

Just before we left the children presented me with a big basket 'for the trip'.  Now the kids know that wrapped gifts about drive me crazy....they need to be opened!  So they give it to me Thursday morning and give me strict orders not to shake or touch any gift until after we were on our way.....  Yep, drove me crazy! 

So after set up and supper I opened the gifts.  They were so funny!  Lots of neat little things for me, romantic things for us as a couple, then some "Good and Plenty's" with a note that said "so dad doesn't feel left out" and then a dvd of Season One of Psych (mystery) with a note that said, "so we, the kids, don't feel left out either"!  I am blessed with such a great family!

Sparkling Grape Juice, two goblets, candle, lip gloss, delicate cookies, salty snacks, good and plentys, dvd, and some soft squirrel/heart socks (that they think rock! ha!).  So on birthday night (Friday) we enjoyed a romantic, candle light meal with our Sparkling Grape Juice and goblets.  The main course was roasted hot dogs....twisted, I know, but you do weird things when you're in your 40's. in love, and in primitive settings!  

Before we left we had been having such beautiful weather that we didn't think to check the forecast.....rain, rain, rain, did I mention that it rained?!  We looked at the radar and soon discovered that it was going to be a wet two days.   Thank God we weren't tenting it! 

 JR is to preach Sunday and we both have youth Bible Study this week so we spent the time studying....

Much studying can make one weary so....

In the afternoon there was a break in the weather so we covered our bike seats with plastic bags and rode trails for awhile.  We took an umbrella along in case there was a down pour but it stayed clear for us.

JR couldn't stand it any longer that we hadn't had a campfire....what is camping without a fire?  So despite the mist he started a fire but had a problem keeping it burning because the rain started increasing.

Derek had to work all day today so KaShondra, Dustin, and Erica came and joined us for breakfast.  The skies began to clear up so we went on a walk around the camp ground.  Of course, they brought Riley, our dog, along and when we neared the river, he, of course, had to dip his feet in and get all muddy.  So....Mother Weaver had to give him a shampoo bath yet before we loaded up and headed back home.  Oh, the joys of motherhood!

After we got home, we went to Detwiler's Farm Market with the kids for hamburgers for $1.00 and one of their luscious smoothies.  The girls wanted to go to Walmart for abit, Dustin and JR needed to go to Fleet Feet for some shoe inserts, I suddenly remembered that I needed to print the church bulletin for tomorrow morning (filling in for our church secretary), came home, made a healthy supper of salad, fried rice and veggies, showered and ready for bed.  Arg, unloading and cleaning the RV will have to wait til Monday.