Family Outing

Let's go back a few weeks to when mom and pop and their two kids headed out in the family vehicle to a little place called Deadwood Lookout. After they loaded up their gear, their trusty/slobbery hound Ellie, and enough firewood to construct another cabin should the original be missing, they set out.

I, as one of the kids, spent the majority of the ride passed out and learning why people buy "non-drowsy" Benadryl. Eventually I came to and discovered we were almost there. An hour later I discovered that "almost there" is a relative term. We spent quite a long time looking for the dirt turnoff that would lead us up to the cabin. We found it tucked away in some shady road construction after we tried several other dirt roads. During that process, Steve (Pop) claimed to have found a human femur to which Kyla (Mom) responded, "Shutup." All the following jokes about human femurs were met with similar responses.

We made it up to the the cabin and didn't do much that evening since it was late. The next day we did a lot of slingshot-ing and meadow leaping. For your information, a lot of meadow leaping is required if you want to secure a good meadow-leaping-photograph. You may consult Anne about the validity of this statement. After we achieved, well, most of us, achieved very high-quality leaping photos, we headed inside since it was starting to snow a bit and we still wanted light for game-playing. We played many a rousing round of Nerts, Cranium, and some game that involved multitasking (aka remembering to push the timer) and therefore was far too difficult. Nerts got a little heated (pronounced, "Kyla wasn't winning anymore,") so we had to take a mental break from that. All in all, a fantastic evening. We went to bed at a decent hour with snow still sprinkling around us.