Family Vacation 2014? Or Was It A Non Vacation

Every year for the past 12 years, My mom's best friends' sister lets us use their property to vacation in.  I always stayed in the main house in one of the bedrooms by myself.  I would get lonely and play with our dog mostly.  Then I met my husband and for the first year we'd been living together, we went to Liberty together.  There was a pool and a frog pond, a big field, The big house, the small spider infested house, and as of last year a hot tub.

Last year we couldn't go because my husband was in school.  So this year I agreed to sleep in a tent.  My mother had some extra materials like a few lanterns, a 10x10 tent, an airmatress and a two person sleeping bag.  So this year we were going to do it.  Our trip was cut two days short as my mom and stepfather had to fly to California for his youngest brothers funeral.  Rest in peace Tim.

We got there and it was getting close to sundown so we hurried to put our tent together.  My oldest nephew helped us and we got it together fairly quickly.  Then we pumped up the air matress and put our stuff inside.

My brother-in-law cooked dinner for the four of us who had arrived that day.  We ate dinner and discovered that my brother in law's brother (B) and his wife (BR) had come two with their two children.  For privacy matters I'm going to call them LC and PC.  LC was full of energy, 5, and always wanted your attention.  PC on the other hand was scared of me and my husband because she was super shy of strangers.  My sister C and my brother in law V were there along with their kids F (who had helped us with the tent) T, and my niece L.

The first night I slept remarkably well.  Until it got super hot in the tent.  We got up and discover B had made Bacon Pancakes. They were good.  We walked around and then started gathering firewood for the first fire my husband built.

We had it going from mid afternoon til well after dinner.  The next day I overslept again and my mom made us eggs and bacon with toast.  After lunch we went swimming in the freezing cold pool.  My husband actually got black eyes and a blue nose so we got out.  Then we went into the hot tub.  It was nice.  We showered and got dressed and had a nice lean roast that my mother cooked.  Tonigh V started the fire and B, BR, LC, and PC were all leaving after S'Mores.  They had unpacking to do as they had just moved and BR was starting a new job in a week.

This is when the vacation kind of fell apart.  My husband had wanted to get to know my sister C better.  So he suggested some movies to watch.  We ended up watching The Strangers, by ourselves.

The next day my husband decided to build a huge campfire so he started collecting firewood early.  He built a massive fire and started it at about 4 pm.  He put huge logs onto it and lots of medium sized fire wood.

It burned all the way through til about 10:30.  My husband got really depressed because everyone had congregated around V's fire the night before but very few people came up and stayed with us.  He wanted to interact with people but he felt like no one wanted to interact with us.  It was a tough last day.  It rained a lot, though in the end we decided to go in the hot tub after dinner, in the on and off rain.

So here's a picture of our tent:

While packing up I fell over and got a nasty spasm in my back, and twisted my knee and ankle.  So we didn't really help clean the house even though we were expected to because of my injuries and my husband's bad back.  That pissed everyone off.  Oh well.

On the way home on the Masspike there's this 6 mile steep hill and at the bottom is the Runaway Truck Ramp which everyone knows I have a crazy obsession of.  So I'll leave you with this last image.