The week ended better than it began. Monday I took the chance to drive the van in to work so I could drop it off at Ab & Tom’s. It made it there, but the overheating alarm went off just as I was approaching the shop. They said they would be able to check it out the same day but they hadn’t called by the time Beth and I had to go to Fort Wayne for family counseling with Nat. And it went poorly. Nat was ok for a while but got really upset with Beth when Beth challenged her about having already dealt with her past, and about not having reasonable expectations for her meds. And she stormed out of the room and didn’t want to say goodbye to us. Nor did she want us to come tomorrow. Beth was fearing the worst and we were both pretty upset overnight. Tuesday was better; the van problem turned out to be split hoses and there was no permanent engine damage ($450 was better than I was afraid it was going to be), then Nat’s mood was much better and Beth had a good visit with her in the afternoon. The softball tournament began at 7:00, which meant that I missed…get this…Alex’s high school orientation…but Beth took him and he said it was boring. But he did get a new iPad, a full size one. And Beth caught the second game. Yes, second…we won the first game of the tournament, essentially a play-in game, by mercying them in the 4th inning, something like 18-6 (Chris Hohm hit TWO grand slams in that game). That was the same team we should have beaten last week but didn’t. Did this time. Then in the second game we played the UMC, the team that beat us badly twice in the season and has the worst attitudes. Complainers, they are. They have more heavy hitters but we stayed with them and finally put them away late. I also had a very gratifying walk late in the game. I hadn’t been hitting well, and the guy in front of me was intentionally walked to load the bases. So I took 3 in a row a forced in a run. Hee, hee. So, we play again next week, against even stiffer competition but on a win streak. Wednesday we had another family counseling with Nat, which went better but we’re still pretty concerned and scared about things. We got safes to keep all the meds in the house locked up. Nat was pretty tired but glad to be home for the next couple days, which we spent getting ready for another camping trip. We had a coupon in a big book we bought a while back for a free night at Indian Springs Campground near Garrett. Friday after I left work we headed there for the weekend. We also brought Sam with us again. We had the boys in the tent and the girls in the camper this time around. The campground is very nice; we liked it a lot. The whole camp is clean and well taken care of, the lake is clean and not too muddy, and the sites weren’t too small like some private campgrounds. However the crowd was largely semi-permanent residents (big RVs hooked to sewer lines) and there was some drinking and loud revelry going on pretty late, and the campground is pretty short on bathrooms. It wasn’t a problem for us this time because we got a site that was close to them, but it would have been a big problem if we were on the other side. Anyway, we had a nice weekend there. I did burn the tin foil dinners pretty badly this time around, not sure why that happened. Maybe we didn’t use the heavy duty foil. Dunno. Also we visited the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg auto museum while we were up there, since we had another coupon. Really liked it, too, all of us. Alex even said he liked it more than he thought he would. We packed up and headed home around lunchtime on Sunday. Nice weekend overall.