Missy is off to camp. We didn't take her up this year, but she'll be gone only for a few days this time. She's going to the girls-only camp at Michiana Christian Service Camp and will be there until Wednesday. She's really been looking forward to it. Alex, needless to say, declined to go to camp this year after last year's problems. Today I also finally got the camper all put back together. We took all the covers off all the cushions and mattresses during the week to help it all dry out and deodorize (sprayed a lot of Lysol and Febreze to keep the mildew and smells away) and spent a few hours at a laundromat on Saturday to get them all washed, plus the kids' sleeping bags and our comforters. The rest of Saturday we spent at the Center Lake beach in town, don't know how many more times we'll be able to this summer. Today after church and lunch I spent the rest of the afternoon getting all the covers back on the camper cushions and mattresses, much much harder than getting them off. After we dropped off Missy, we went shoe shopping for Alex for the coming school year and then made another attempt at flying the RC foam plane. This was the third attempt to fly it this week. Tuesday was the maiden voyage, which lasted about three seconds before the catastrophic crash. Which I was able to fix up for a second attempt Wednesday but that time Alex was holding it for launch and kinda panicked and launched it too soon, and made it fly straight into the ground upon takeoff. Today's attempt (after another fixing session the other day) ended before the flight began as the speed controller let all it's magic smoke out, complete with a little fire, just after I plugged the battery in. So, I need some more parts. Gotta figure out now how to discharge the battery for storage until I can get things together again. Oh yeah, and Friday we went to Fort Wayne after work to get a Kindle Fire HDX, as we promised the kids as a reward for good behavior over the summer. We told them if they accumulated 40 smiley faces (one per full day of no whining) over the summer we would buy one. They're both elated to have a new toy.