Ehlana and Ethan:
Our Saturday night was awesome; and we’ve
again had another good day thanks to what has so far been a total fail for
weather forecasters that we can’t complain about because we’re enjoying the hot
weather.
The campfire last night was near-normal
with a bit of socially-distanced strange.
The campfire stories and music were the same, but we were also spread
out around three fires; and we didn’t get to have all of the neighbors join in –
though many of them were out in their own back yards too. Our tents were spread out across both back
yards; and we didn’t have any co-ed tents.
We bent a few of those social distancing rules so that our youngest
cousins could camp with us too, but the rules for that are continuing to loosen
anyway; and we’ve been amazed that Brianna has managed to hold all of her happy
hugs and kisses in for months already! ;^)
While we missed the co-ed part of camping
that we love so much; we still had fun hanging out with the girls or boys last
night. We also stayed up too-late; and
our wake-up call for Tai Chi by the river felt too-early. Now we’re up to this morning for our news of
the day; and it really was weird today because we didn’t have a holiday weekend
church service – even though we also didn’t get the rain; and could have had an
outdoor service at the church. That
decision was made based on the forecast, though; and it was too-late to change
anything; so we again had an online video message from Pastor John and music
from the teen praise team. Resuming our
church services isn’t happening as expected, but we’ll comment on that sometime
next week; since we do still expect that to get worked out.
Continuing our story for today; the nice
weather wasn’t total, since it was cloudy for a lot of the day, and we did get
a sprinkle or two, but that didn’t get in the way of our play time today. We biked at the park and on the trails; had
ongoing canoe rides; back yards games; and a couple of socially-distanced
barbeques. We did not try to book any of
the limited seating for meals at the Inn today, but then they’re still not
doing the Sunday buffets; so that wouldn’t have been the same anyway.
Life has gotten quieter for us this
evening; since we’re collectively taking it easy tonight ahead of Memorial
Day. The forecast for rain could be
wrong again tomorrow, but it is still there; and while the parade and ceremony
at the cemetery is still a go; the picnic is cancelled. There are going to be ‘picnic baskets’ that
will be handed out after that ceremony, since they needed to do something with
all of the food donations, but that’ll just be weird – and not as much fun as
the party at the park. We’ll let you
know how that goes for us, but all we have left for this update is that our
quiet night has included bath or Jacuzzi time; a movie; and some music
fun. Our best friends are with their own
families tonight, but that’s more because of our collective choice not to have
another camping night – and that was also because the risk of rain before
morning was higher than we wanted to risk tonight. We don’t actually mind camping in the rain,
but that isn’t true for some of our cousins and friends; and then there is the
fact that packing up a campsite in the rain isn’t fun either.
That’s a bit of a ramble, so it’s time to
wrap this up; move on; and eventually get some sleep. After staying up late last night, we should
do that soon anyway. This holiday so far
has been much better than we expected – even without houses-full of visitors,
so whether we get rained out tomorrow or not; we’ll be happy for all of the
awesome we did get to share with our favorite people. There may be a bit more fun before we sleep
coming up next, but we’ll save any bedtime chat time with our favorite
collegians’ news for the next report.
Until then, this is Ehlana and Ethan
Proctor; live from the hidden home of the Magi of the Light – and May the Magi
Force be with you!
