Monday, August 5, 2019

We are back from a short camping weekend at Chain O' Lakes State Park. Ric and Nickie are on a vacation for their 25th anniversary, so we agreed to have Lauren over for a few days. Beth drove up to meet Stephanie for a handoff during the week, and she'll be staying with us for a bit longer. We haven't been particularly entertaining, I don't think, but as long as we can avoid drama it'll be fine. Anyway, after work of Friday we hitched up and rolled out, and got set up with plenty of daylight left. We had a very nice campsite, although there was pretty much no grass in it. The weekend was dominated by the beach, we spent time there Friday night, and again Saturday (most all day, except for a run to town to go shopping at Dunham's for beach stuff. We spent way too much money on floaties for the beach). I got a 7 mile run in Saturday morning early too, and my high ankle (which has been very sore lately) was feeling pretty good. Sunday we hit the beach early, then came back later to rent boats. Alex got a kayak, Missy and I got a canoe, and Nat and Lauren got another canoe. We went out for a sojourn on the lake all the way through one of the channels to the next lake over, then just back to shore because the girls were fighting and couldn't stand to be in the boat together any more. We packed up and headed for home on Monday (we got to see pretty much the whole park empty out Sunday, and were pretty much alone Sunday night. Our campsite neighbors even gave us a tote full of firewood as they were leaving because they couldn't use it).....earlier in the week Beth got he sleep study results. In the study period, she stopped breathing 57 times per hour on average. It is sever enough that she is going straight to having a CPAP. It'll be delivered to the pharmacy sometime in the next few weeks, she'll get fitted for it, and then she'll sleep with it from then on. I hope there's a big difference. She's so tired all the time, this might be why.