Rain Rain Go Away.....

It has rained virtually every day. Things are wet and soggy, and everyone is waiting with bated breath for summer to begin. It's a new month, maybe it'll happen soon. Thank God we went down south, or we wouldn't have had any sunshine in July! (no kidding).

I haven't blogged in a while, so I'm trying to catch up since Doug and Julie's visit. They left back to Huntersville on Wed. the 28th. I miss them - the company, the lack of a schedule, and the spontaneity. They stayed at our house from Sunday till Wednesday, sleeping in the kids' room, while the kids stayed in our room. It was like camping for Austin and Emma - an adventure! Adam stayed over a few nights on Austin's mattress in the basement.

Monday was spent with them and the family out at the parents home in Waterport. The weather was yucky (surprise), so the girls played Boggle and drank wine inside. Mike took Austin and Brandon fishing on Dad's boat. We had a bonfire, played a game of bottle cap tossing, and headed home around 9 pm. But the real excitement happened when the trailer broke while trying to get the boat out of the water! A new metal piece for $70 bucks and it'll be good as new.

Tuesday D & J were going to go to Laura and Daryl's camp, down near....darn, I can't think of where right now. The kids and I were going to join them overnight, but of course come Tuesday morning, it was raining again. We all decided that spending a day at the camp all muddy would do it no justice, so instead Laura and Amanda came over, and we all went to the Memorial Art Gallery to visit Julie's friends (where she used to work). Unfortunately, the gallery itself was closed, because I would've enjoyed seeing the exhibits, and exposing Emma to the art.

Mike had a volleyball game, so we went to Hot Shots to watch him lose...I mean play, and have some eats. A few drinks later and we were all having fun heckling and cheering for him and his team. Amanda was getting silly cheering for a "cute" guy on a different team. It was a fun night. Once we got home we watched Mystic River, which started out good with a good twist, but ended up feeling thrown together with a particularly corny scene near the end. We ended up feeling tricked and gypped (jipped?). Anyway, I ended staying up until 3 am watching Good Will Hunting. A very good movie!

Life has gotten back to normal, as much as possible anyway. The sun is out today, so maybe we can actually leave the house...