Friday: just rested up for the weekend and got a few things prepared for the weekend. Then out to dinner with David at our fav Mexican food. El Ranchito in White Settlement.
Saturday: Camping with grandbabies at Lake Whitney.
Sunday: back home from camping and Uber driving.
14 trips, 331 miles, $240 or so
Camping always so much fun with the babies. Made better that we have upgraded the tent & air mattress. Also Blake and Audrey are older and can do more with little instruction. We made a smart change and went to Lake Whitney SP or going to Oakdale in Glen Rose. Lake Whitney had storm shelter sites available. This is an awesome option for tent dwellers. The shelters are huge with the top of the walls screened. The roof has a large overhangs so no water gets in. They lighting, electric, a table inside and out, and plenty of floor space if you have to abandon tent.
We got to our site about noon. Then everyone put the hustle on to get unloaded and set up before the next wave of rain. Mostly done be the time floodgates opened, but Dave did get caught in it for a few minutes. We waited out and ate lunch. Discovered we forgot the propane for stove. So I called around and they had it right in town at the hardware store.
Once weather broke again we all loaded up in my car and took off. First the hardware store then to try geocacheing. The rain started again as we got to our first site - a very old cemetery off a dirt road. We got close but never found the cache. The cemetery had some very old stones nearly two years old. The kids and I enjoyed looking at them. Then we got caught in a downpour and had to run for the car. David and Zoe were dry waiting for us lol. The rain let up as we got to the second site, the entrance to a campground that had huge raised flower beds. Dave found this one! Next two sites were another cemetery and picnic area. We didn't find the caches, but had fun exploring.
Back at the campground I took a nap while Dave taught the kids how to make a fire with wet wood. We thankfully had no more downpours. They got me up around 6 to make dinner. We had mac meat a camping favorite. I also had purposefully brought two canned food items. This gave Dave an opportunity to teach the kids to use the can openers in their packs. Audrey did the best.
After dinner we sat around the fire a bit, then decided to hang in the tent to watch Live pd. I love Direct TV on my tablet for such occasions, Dave hooked it up to a small monitor and wall laa. We intended to make Smores but everyone crashed out. Trevor and I were up on a potty break in the middle of the night. We saw a whole herd of deer, about 30 head, right across from us. He loved that. Then we walked by the lake with birds squawking at us. We ended up sleeping in late till 10 or so.
I made our usual breakfast of burritos. After the kids ran around playing a bit. But it was getting hot out, really hot and humid. We decided to scrap our hike due to mud and muggy. Broke down camp and headed home about 1pm.
In case your interested the cost of the shelter was $30 only $10 more than our normal site. Plus $5 gate fee for adults. So $40.
I got home in time for the beginnings of the Cowboy game and decided to work.
- Got to stadium right before game let out. The Cowboys kicked but so it was like a happy bomb went off out there. My first ride was a long one (and profitable) all the way to Frisco. Couple of great gals celebrating one's birthday. They had great fun heckling anyone crazy enough to be still wearing a jaguar's jersey out the windows.
- I worked the game till I had a ride to Coppell. Then got some dinner and popped over to the airport. Barely time to eat when I got my first call. Tall cute drink of water going to downtown Dallas. I forgot about the Bruno Mars concert so next call was there.
- Mother and daughter from out of town. As usual Dallas PD had the traffic messed up. I had a very hard time getting to them. I tried to ask an officer for help but that resulted in my second argument with Dallas and him cussing me. I didn't handle it well again. I had to say a prayer of repentance.
- After a couple rides there I bounced back to the airport. Another few rides.
- No big blessings or prayers tonight. As the weather was terrible, I'm just glad people were nice. God kept me safe.
- I got in around 3am exhausted.
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