We are back from camping at Chain O' Lakes State Park, and Missy's face is messed up. It all started with the labor Day camping trip.... Friday after I got out of work and the kids got out of school, we hitched up the wagons and headed to the campground, where we were spending the long weekend with the McCoys and the Myers', who were back in town visiting from Cincy. We all got moved in and set up fairly uneventfully in the incredibly sweltering Friday heat, but that wasn't to last long. Friday overnight was as close to perfect as we've ever camped in, with the windows largely unzipped and perfect humidity levels. Saturday was also nice, long enough for us to go for a swim at the lake for most of the afternoon, when it started clouding up. And cooling down. We all had our smartphones watching the weather roll in, thinking maybe it would miss us, which it did until after dinner. We got a big tarp tied up in the trees for some semblance of shelter, which turned out to be a good thing. Just when we thought it would all break up and go around us, there was a HUGE lightning flash and a HUGE clap of thunder maybe a couple hundred yards from us, making most of the kids scream, and it immediately started raining buckets. We all scattered to our respective campsites and waited it out inside, us while we tried to calm Alex down (finally using Angry Birds and his Gramma blanket to do so). We got everything out of the rain as best we could but the evening was basically over, and it rained most of the night. We did get showers before turning in so we were presentable for church in the morning; we did lunch with the Boschains and Myers' before heading back. Travis, Brian and I did get some geocaching in Sunday evening (but only after we found a friendly campsite neighbor with some jumper cables, since the kids had watched a movie in the truck and run down the battery) that was really cool....you were led to the cache by small reflectors mailed to trees that would have been almost invisible in the daylight. I'll have to set one up like that myself. Anyway, It had been more or less dry all day, but it was damp and cool, so the overnight was pretty uncomfortable; more so on Monday when as we were packing up Missy and JoAnna had a crash on their bikes and Missy went over her handlebars onto the asphalt head first. Luckily the crash was right in front of a campsite inhabited by a paramedic, so she was rushed back to us and checked out on a basic level very quickly. I just heard a truck pull up with Missy in it crying, and JoAnna say she had fallen off her bike and hit her head, and came out to see her bleeding and with an enormous swollen lump around her eye. Beth and Tabitha ran her down to the hospital in Columbia City while Travis and I kept packing up, then we took the kids down to get them when we got an all-clear. No permanent damage, no concussion, nothing internal, nothing broken. Whew, lucked out. Could have been much worse. The paramedic had thought she might have broken her orbit. Anyway, we had to have the truck jumped again to get down to the hospital, but we got there just as Beth and Missy were being discharged (Missy threw up on the mat on way out the front doors, but felt a lot better right away). We just finished packing up and towed it all home to rest after that.