Monday, September 5, 2011

Camping For A Day

We were invited to go camping up at Sore Acres over Labor Day weekend. Unfortunately, we couldn’t go for the weekend! But we did go up for one night… And it was gorgeous!

We just enjoyed the great company of friends, reading in the sunshine, cutting and splitting firewood, campfires, exploring on the quad, shooting guns, making movies, and trying to keep our puppy from eating paint balls… (Didn’t do so well on that last one. Thankfully, paint balls aren’t deadly!)

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Shooting guns

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riding the quad

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Sitting around the campfire

We didn’t get too many pictures. But Will got some great close-ups! See if you can guess what they are???

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Did ya guess what they were?

Other than surprising a truck load of trespassing partiers and the dog eating paint balls, not much exciting happened until the trip home…

Chris noticed the van was pulling a bit to the left when he braked. So he did a test, braked hard and the van veered hard to the left. At the same moment we heard a rock skip along the road under the van. At the exact same moment we heard a horrible scraping sort of noise. Knowing it couldn’t be good, we took it easy until we could find a place to pull over.

Flashlights came out and a VERY flat driver’s side front tire was discovered with no more writing on the outside of the tire! Finding the spare was a bit of a challenge since you don’t expect to find it under the van between the two front seats… But we found it, changed it and was back on the road at a slow and easy 45-55mph all the way home safe and sound!

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