THE CHURCH CAMPING TRIP

The camping trip was so much fun this year. To be honest, we commit every year and this great apprehension comes over me as the time draws near. I'm not sure why, I always have a good time. The kids always have a great time and it brings us closer to people in our parish. Maybe that's it, spending time with people we hardly know. Taking the risk (being like kids) and be carefree for just a little while.

I think this trip was so much fun because we have been several times before and knew what to expect, kinda. Rain and thunderstorms were predicted every day. That kept us all wondering when it was going to hit, but the weather held out until the very last. We ended up packing up wet tents but all in all, it was all good!The place Naomi liked to hang out, The Swimming Hole. She still got to play in the water and didn't have to carry her tube up the hill.

Her partners in crime, the rest of the gang.

The mass of tubers, all waiting on the last ones to make it. "Come on, we're freeeezing!"

It must have been Joe.......posing for a picture!

The way Naomi likes to take a hike, right on her daddy's back.

Walking on the trail, stopping to take a picture. Life is good!

"We're going down that creek????

Father John, taking it all in. Naomi at his side, filling him in on how it all works.

Admiring the waterfall, being thankful we don't have to go down that!

Naomi proving that she can walk on the hike, she just doesn't want to!