I finally got the van into the shop to have that front end clunking noise looked at, and it turned out to be bad front sway bar links. While we had it in, I also had them look at the front blower because it has been really noisy for some time now and Beth doesn't like it. It turned out that the motor was going, so I had them replace it. Overall, $503.64, ouch....This weekend was the 11th annual Wiessner/Pinkster/Gruizenga/Knight campout, once again at Michawana. This year we did camp, since Mom was not with us this time. I can't even imagine that any more. Anyway, I took a half day of vacation on Friday so I could finish up all the last minute prep. The kids had all their clothes and things packed, and Beth had all the food bought, so I just had to pack up and hitch up. Since it's only a weekend, we did simple. We got on the road by around 4:30 or so, so we were able to get to the campground and set everything up in the daylight for once! There weren't as many cousins and friends this year, but still a pretty good crowd, with all the usual suspects. There were, however, other groups of campers about, and one little kid apparently mistook Alex for some other kid that had been picking on him and threw a bottle of pop all over him. Alex was pretty pissed but not much he could do about it. Otherwise everything went pretty well, the weather held out for the most part, it was cool and cloudy but it didn't rain to speak of all weekend. It was also windy enough that I never set up the awning. Saturday night unfortunately turned into a drinking party around the fire, again. Not loving that. The zipline never opened either, not loving that. I did get in a run, another round of the first 5k I ever ran. Too hilly though, bad time. Sunday everyone packed up and left to go to a new restaurant but Beth and Nat were not feeling up to the crowds and noise, plus we had to get home for small group in the evening, so we bugged out without staying for lunch. We did stop in Kalamazoo since I had a Barnes & Noble coupon that was expiring, and we had wanted to pick up copies of King of Tokyo and Azul.