Home again.

We are finally home. We spent Monday through Friday at Restoration Acres in Hillsboro, Ohio. This was our first year of camping at Hillsboro Family Camp. We went during the day one day last year and Darren decided then that he wanted to try to get a group from church to go and camp this year. We reserved three camping spots a couple of months ago in preparation for the week. As it turned out there were three families from church that went and stayed for the whole week. It was the five of us, Mary Butcher and her four kids, and Leonard and Ann Lutz. James came up every day with a group of teenagers and a group of the older adults came up for the day a couple of days so we ended up having a pretty good size group.

We enjoyed the fellowship and had a good time. The kids absolutely loved it. They have excellent programs for kids of all ages. Noah and Karlee both refused to go to the Kiddie Corral but the older kids all enjoyed their classes and activities. Actually, Noah went the first day and stayed about 15 minutes before a message for "Judy Fizer to report to the Kiddie Corral" flashed up on the big screen. Although my name isn't Judy I figured that the odds of there being another kid there with the last name of Fizer were slim to none and sure enough, when I got there he was screaming his head off so that was his first and last Kiddie Corral visit.

Chad Allen was in charge of the program for the junior and senior high kids and from what I gathered from them they thought he did an awesome job. They were all pumped up and excited.

Tent camping was okay I guess but it was miserably hot. My plan for next year is to abandon the tent and borrow a camper with air conditioning for the week!

All in all we had a very uplifting week and we only managed to almost burn down the entire campground once, but I really don't want to talk about the unfortunate camp stove accident that left us with a lovely sunroof in our canopy ;)