Memorial Day weekend 2010 is in the books. We camped out with all the usual suspects, this time at Mississinewa Reservoir (first time there for us). I left work just after lunch, but events had conspired to prevent us from getting everything ready just on time so we worked at packing and loading the camper until Alex got home from school, and even around an hour or so past. That is, Beth didn't get the shopping done until the last minute. I forgot to sanitize the water tank. Anyway, we left around dinnertime and rolled into the camp at around 7. We were right between the Bells and Judds so Alex and Missy had kids to play with while we set up and got dinner ready. The campground is nice, we thought, but they could use some more pathways to the restrooms and some more water faucets. The bug control was excellent. The kids played and the grownups visited until probably around 10, when we started trying to get the kids down. Not easy, too wired. I stayed with them in the camper until I thought they were asleep, then went out to visit some more, only to hear the sound of Missy screaming a bit later because she woke up and didn't know where we were. By the time I got to her she was sobbing and had left the camper. That was about it for the evening anyway. The next day we went to the beach just after lunchtime for a few hours. It was truly a break in the weather we've been having lately because it was scorching hot all day, and hardly a cloud anywhere. The lake was even warm enough for the adults to swim, and hundreds were. Even me. That says something. We bribed the kids to get out with ice cream afterwards, then had a community dinner back at camp. The worst moment of the weekend came later Saturday when Alex tripped while running and fell face-first into the edge of a picnic table, putting a huge knot on his forehead, and putting him on the ground screaming for quite a while. Poor kid. He seemed to recover ok, though. Sunday was about the same as Saturday, except Boschains and our intern Ray came down to the park to visit for the day, and we took them to the beach with us. After dinner, though, it started clouding up, and some others got a weather report that storms were on the way. Everyone with a tent or popup packed up after dinner and headed out, including us. We had just about our whole camp packed up when the rain started, but about the only significant thing that got wet was the awning of the camper...I'll have to make sure to pull it out to dry before it mildews. We rolled out at about 10 or so. I heard today that they got just pounded with t-storms during the night, so leaving was a good call. Today was a cookout at the Horbetts' house, with a few of the people who had been camping until yesterday. They had an inflatable water slide thingy going on, and a go-kart they race around their yard with to amuse the kids. It was supposed to be an outside thing, but the rain continued today and drove most of it indoors. So overall, I think the weekend was managed pretty well.