Happy Boo Scare Day!

Happy Halloween!!



Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Tinkerbelle rocked the holiday lol.

Lisa, Ronny, Avery and Shane joined us for ToT this year. We waited a little longer to go out this year because John had to work but we did really. The kids stayed out until the end of ToT for the first time! This is huge. Usually Ryan lasts about a block before he says he is all done. Not this time.

We had a great Halloween, hope you did too!!!

Out with a bang!

Our camping season that is. Oh boy.

We went to Normandy Farms for their Halloween weekend. Just like we always do. We had been getting weather warnings for snow and such......which I promptly ignored. Seriously......it's only Oct for crying out loud. Snow before Halloween? Nah, not going to worry about it.

Have I mentioned my daughter is psychic? She was telling her teachers on Friday that she was going to be camping in the SNOW over the weekend. We laughed and poo-pooed her. Until she was right. Yup, it snowed for our camping trip. ACK!

Friday was okay. Just cold. No big deal, that's what sweatshirts are for. Saturday was kind of crappy. It was pouring rain/sleet/ice. Trick or Treat didn't go very well. The kids got through one row of campers and came back soaked to the bone. Saturday night was awful. The power went out in Foxboro in the middle of the night. No power = no heat in the camper.

Now, some might say you were CAMPING, you aren't supposed to have heat. Yes, I absolutely agree. However, we would never have chosen to tent camp in an impending weather storm. So we expected heat. To lose it was not so good. Our friends Tiffany, Jon and the kids came with us. Tiffany does NOT do cold. She was not a happy camper. (no pun intended) To add insult to injury, they came with us last year and we ran out of propane and lost heat in the middle of the night then too. I think Tiff might be the jinx........LMAO. We've never had this happen before!

I always have extra sleeping bags stashed throughout the camper so, truthfully, I wasn't cold at all. BTW, those Coleman sleeping bags ROCK,I highly recommend!!! But Sunday morning, when it was time to go home, proved to be an issue. No power = no juice to make the bump outs come in. NO bueno. John had to drive me and the kiddos home, grab a generator and head back to the campground with Dad. They ended up having to jump the battery to the camper (who knew it even HAD a battery), clean all the snow off of the bump outs and then drive the camper back home. It was a very long day.

In spite of the crappy weather and the loss of power / heat, we still had a GREAT time. It's one of those trips that will be remembered. I'll absolutely be staying next Halloween weekend. The kids had a great time, the adults did as well. So I'm okay with all of it! It's one of those things that happen and you are put out for a while but once you look back you laugh. LML.