July 14

I was looking through one of the hundreds of catalogs that I receive (I have been calling and removing my name from the mailing lists, but slowly.) and about fell off my chair. The 80s clothing is back. Now my question is WHY? Did the purple buffalo plaid tunic with leggings and a double belt really look good 20 years ago. Hmmmm . . . NO! Now I know that everything comes back into style as the saying goes but the new designers are supposed to change it up a little bit. I don't think they did that because I looked at the cover of the magazine to see if it was one I kept from the 80s' for some reason. If you wore the clothes the first time this is a era you should not revisit.

July 8

We went to Adventureland today. The weather was supposed to be partly cloudy and 85. When we left it was way cloudy and only about 61. On our drive down we had sprinkles of rain so I thought it was a good chance that we had a down pour at some time during the day. We pulled in around 10:30 to a touch of sun. Our first ride was the Ferris Wheel. Cautious Campbell, of course didn't want to go on it. We made him. He liked it but didn't want to go on it again. Then on to the Teacups, which from Disneyland we knew he liked. Next in line was the Der Flinger, the umbrella seats that circle around. Jamison could not wait he was a little jitterbug, not so for Cautious Campbell he wanted to know if he had to go on the ride. We made him. He loved it and wanted to go on it again. This became a theme of the day. After the 3rd time of him saying he didn't want to go on that, I said that he had to go on at least 2 more rides that he didn't want to so he could get a souvenir, he also had to go on a roller coaster with me. The two rides? The log ride and the Raging River. Both were a hit with Campbell not so much with Jamison. Campbell had to go on both of them again. Jamison went on the motorcycles. Anyone from Schleswig will recognize them as the same cars that are at Calf Show Days. This was Jamison's favorite ride I think he was on it a total of 12 times. Since the day didn't ever get into the 80s, I really didn't need to wear a sleeveless shirt but it didn't ever rain. Our longest wait on any ride was 10 minutes. I got soaked on both water rides. The roller coaster that was picked was the Underground (this is so not a roller coaster but after it I couldn't get Campbell to try another one.) Below is Campbell's favorite ride and he was actually never coaxed to go on this. He picked it all by himself. We only made it through about half the park. Jamison woke up the next day asking to go back to that park.

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yeah! I'm back to being from Cedar Falls IA and not Vodesta GA. Happy Days are here again.

Happy 4th of July

Well here I am again. I have thought about you so many times but then I get to Thursday and think "you don't want to hear about last weekend when this weekend is right around the corner." So I stay silent. This weekend we were up at the cabin and on Saturday it rained and rained. The rain finally stopped around 4 so Brian was able to shoot his fireworks for the crowd. There were a couple other houses on the lake that were competing with them and this made for an even better show. It was just the family and the in-laws this weekend. Let me just say I like friends better so come on up some weekend. We had sun on Sunday (as it should be since it is in the name.) so we hung out at our little beach where Campbell and Jamison swam like crazy. Jamison had a little bit of a problem once as he decided to go out almost to his chin and then the big waves come in. I thought I was going to have to go swimming too. I was able to pull him out with his life jacket though. The scare didn't stop him for long. He was back to waist deep in about 15 minutes.

I actually did not get on the lake at all this weekend, but I did get my two magazines read from cover to cover. On the rainy Saturday I was itching to be crafty but I didn't have anything along. I thought about going into Manchester to check out the stores but with it being the 4th I didn't know how many would be open and didn't want to take the chance that none of them would be.

I also didn't take pictures of anything except for fireworks and they didn't turn out. I have 2 weeks to study up on firework pictures. July 18th are the fireworks at the lake so I have another shot this year. Relaxing weekend doing nothing. Ahhhh!