It has been a little while since I posted, and I think part of the reason is that I was planning to write a blog post on the camping trip that my family and I took about a week ago, but in my brain my plan for that was turning out to be very long. I didn't really want to take a lot of time to write a long post, but somehow my brain seemed to be trying to keep from writing any other posts until I had fulfilled my obligation to the camping trip. Today, however, I had decided to blog about my day when I realized that I had never done my camping trip post. Therefore, I am shortening the trip post to one paragraph and it is as follows:
My family loves to go camping, and our trips are always enjoyable, despite the fact that half the time we manage to choose a raining weekend to camp. Two weekends ago (the one where it rained :) we went to Charles A. Lindbergh State Park. We had lots of fun hiking around the park, and even went canoeing! This was our second time canoeing as a family, and already everyone can (or at least tried to :) paddle. While on our canoe trip, we saw some turtles on a rock and also stopped at a sandbar that was perfect for skipping rocks (on Davey's first try he got nine skips! And the most I can do is two...does this happen to all older sisters?) Thankfully, the rain only came Saturday afternoon, and we had a good time in the camper taking naps, reading books and playing card games. We also went to the Carnegie Library in Little Falls, which was donated by Andrew Carnegie and would be one of my favourite places to go and read if I lived a couple hours closer to it! After the library we took a tour of the Charles Lindbergh house. It was really cool to see where the Lindberghs lived and to learn more about them. Mrs. Lindbergh loved to play piano, and her piano is there and kept in-tune for visitors to try! Mama, Amanda, and I all got to play it, which I thought was really neat! All-in-all it was a very good trip, and I hope to have many more like it.
Now, to the intended post:
This morning we - Mama, Amanda, Davey, Nathan, Katie, Grandma, Anna, and I - went strawberry picking, something we do every year (but Anna was a new addition :). There is something addicting about finding more berries hidden under new, green leaves, and with so many pickers we had soon filled up our buckets. When we came home it was almost lunchtime, and I ate after mixing up a batch of Amish friendship bread (I don't make extra starters, so we have decided that my stuff is really Amish selfish bread), then went swimming. Katie's latest thing is holding someone's hands and swimming around with them, so I did that with her for a while. Soon, however, the sky began filling with clouds, the clouds began filling with water, and the rain began to come down. I swam a little longer - there's nothing more fun than swimming in a light rain! - but it started raining harder and Nathan and I, the only remaining swimmers, got out and dried off. As we walked into the house, the smell of friendship bread greeted us at the deck door, and the moment was just perfect! Well, not quite: the only thing that would make it better, in my opinion, would be eating the bread and writing - and that is how this post came about!
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