All in the name of fun

I just wanted to share our day with you. Chris has wanted to take Eli camping again for awhile now and had planned to do it tonight. He decided on Payson Lakes because, well, I don't know why but that is where he wanted to go. So I decided that Isaac and I would join them for the day playing at the lake and then we would come home and sleep at home. So, this morning we spend about an hour getting stuff and kids ready to go. Then we stop at Wal Mart so Chris can get some breakfast items and also to get some oars for a little blow-up raft that he purchased a few days ago. They didn't have any oars so we went to another store in Payson which also didn't have any. So, Chris went up the canyon with the boys and I drove out to Santaquin to borrow his sisters oars. Chris called me from the campground and told me that it was totally full (which I had expected since it's a holiday weekend, but he didn't believe me.) So we spend some time driving to another campground a few miles away which is also full. Then Chris found a spot off of the road that already had a fire pit and you could tell it was an unofficial camp site. But Eli didn't want to camp there because the grass was long and there were too many bugs. Granted, he did only have flip-flops. I meant to get some other shoes for him but forgot.

So we put the tent back in the car and went over to the lakes. We pulled into the lakes in two cars and ended up having to pay $5 per car. Then we get to the lake, let the kids play while Chris blows up the raft. And by play I mean listen to Eli complain about the water being cold and try to keep Isaac in the shallow water. Then we all get in the raft and Isaac cries the whole time. Eli is complaining about something the whole time. We ended up putting Isaac back in the water and Chris held onto his life jacket but it didn't help, he still cried. We were out in the boat for about 20 minutes and figured it wasn't worth it. I was going to bring Isaac home so Chris and Eli could stay and have fun but then Eli was complaining too much so we all left and came home.

We set out for a day of fun and all that really happened was us wasting gas money driving two cars all the way up there, spending $30 at Wal Mart that wouldn't have been spent regularly and dealing with two ornery kids the whole time. The one good thing is that Eli fell asleep on the way home and it looks like he will sleep all night. Although with our luck today he will wake up about 9 and be all rested and not go back to sleep.