Visiting AJ at Camp

We went up on Saturday to get AJ for the weekend. Since this is was his first year doing two weeks, we wanted to break it up a bit for him. So, we went and picked him up so we go do laundry, and visit.

I have to say, it was not the best weekend ever. First, we got there about 30 minutes late because of traffic. But, luckily when I called the camp to let them know we were running late, we found out that all the other parents had gotten stuck in the same traffic we had.

And then when we actually saw AJ we realized that the poor kid had had a cold all week. He wasn't deathly ill or anything, and was still able to do the activities. But, I felt so bad that he was under the weather during the one thing he had been looking forward to all year.

I had originally assumed that we would go to the local street fair, walk around, maybe go to a park and let the kids play. But what actually happened was that AJ fell asleep in the backseat while we drove around waiting to get into our hotel. We were finally able to get in our hotel at 3PM. We all just rested and waited for dinner.

We had gotten a certificate at check-in that gave us "Kids eat free" status. And the restaurant was for the hotel dinning room. We mistakenly thought that this meant the restaurant was kid friendly. It was not. Although there were kid menus, there were also white tablecloths- the whole nine yards. It wasn't a horrible experience, but Shawn and I had to take turns walking around with Charlie. He did love the Mango sorbet that they served to cleanse our palette, though. (Insert big eye roll here.)

I ended up taking the kids back to the room while Shawn stayed and paid. He did tell me that the two women next to us did comment on how well behaved our kids were. Although it was nice of them to say, I am guessing they meant AJ, because Charlie was not at the table very much. It was still nice to hear.

We got back to the room and just hung out for the rest of the night. Then the next morning, we stayed in the room until the last possible second. We ordered breakfast in, the boys wrestled around on the floor and we watched some t.v. We went and grabbed lunch and then did a repeat of the day before. We drove around while AJ napped in the back seat.

And then to put the cap on the weekend, AJ got to camp only to find out that his friend from school was not there after all. We are not sure what happened, but AJ was bummed.

In other news, we drove by this during one of our drives around town. Can you say, "Random"?

Yes, it is an entire field of rusted dinosaurs and other assorted animals.