Busy

No, really. Very busy. It all started when Brandon and Kimmi Keel and spent Thursday night and all day Friday with us since the lock-in started at 7:00 PM Friday night. We went to a place about 20 minutes from our house called Tannehill. It is a camp. It played an important part in the Civil War. It is a really neat place where there are neat old places where they give demonstrations of different jobs back in that day like being a blacksmith and other stuff. Iron and other  minerals were mined there to make ammunition for the war there. It is a good vacation spot because you can rent old cabins and buy things on "trade days" where people sell different items. Kind of like the fair, booths of all kinds. Also furnaces and other thinks are still there from back in the day that people can explore. Well, Dad wanted to go to an "old country store" that is there and read the map wrong. We walked and walked on that stupid never-ending trail and kept getting held up because brother Brandon and Dad kept stopping in the woods to make fun of the people on the video in the museum that they had there. So, anyway, we walked and we walked and we kept walking and we walked some more. It seemed as though the path would never end. Finally we got to a clearing. Several different booths were in that place. Finally, Mom figured out that we were on the opposite side of the campus than were we had parked our car! So I drew a map of what it was like:

I will explain. The red path is SPWWETTPIDK#1. That was the first path that we took, that Dad said that the country store was on. So now that we go from the car to the other side of the camp, we are stuck. The miles that were walked by our poor feet keeps getting better every time some one tells it, but I would say that we walked at least 5 or 6 miles. :-) OK, so now we have to walk back on the blue path. ( R U getting the picture of how easy it would have been to take the blue path in the first place??) On the blue path we stopped at the Sweet Shop and got candy. Then we continued to walk and walk and finally to that store. And it WASN'T EVEN REALLY THAT GREAT!!!!!!! And 4 out of 7 of had a LOCK-IN THAT NIGHT!!!!!!!! Staying up all night long and having fun! Oh well. We went home, got a cat nap, then brother Brandon, sister Kimmi, Mom and I all loaded up and to the Dollar Tree to get some last minute supplies. Then we went to the church, where the lock-in was going to be held. Actually, we had a good crowd there. We ordered Pizza Hut pizza and had a little cake for Laura, since it was her birthday that day. Her cousin Brianna was there, keeping us up all night. She is CRAZY! Then we did the play that the Bessemer VLB's worked really hard on. Everybody enjoyed our play. Dalton's disco costume was especially funny. We played the Wii, office chair races, and best of all, we had a snowball fight with T.P.!!! After the lock-in, we all went to our house to sleep. Dad and the boys went back to Tannehill while we were asleep. We grilled hamburgers and hot dogs for lunch. Yum! Well, that is about it except that Sam bought a hermit crab and is really excited about it. I told him he should name it Crunchy. :-) Adios!

~Katie~