Last Friday night, when the 4 of us flew from Phoenix to Columbus, OH. I realized this was the first time I had flown with my entire family. Sarah and I took Isaac to Montana once, but we haven't all flown somewhere since Nathaniel was born. We have either drove to our destination or gone at different times and met up and then left at different times.
Summer vacation has been great. We are about 45 minutes north of Columbus in the middle of farm land. I get some cell service and hardly any data service. Both have been fine with me. We have access to the Internet so we aren't flipping out when we can't check our face book or the weather or something. I do feel a little off the grid because I hadn't watched any live TV until last night when I caught the end of the All Star game and then the news. I like to keep my self pretty informed at home, not sure why since most of it is so depressing, but I guess I just like to know what is going on in this crazy world we live in.
Back to vacation, we came in Saturday morning at 12:30am and by the time bags were collected and we drove to my dad's place it was close to 2am. Best part about being up to 2 am with the kids is they slept to almost 10am! Sarah and I still felt like we need more sleep but we were thankful for the 8 hrs we got. Saturday my Dad had a project for the boys and I, more of a project for my Dad and I since the kids were in overload mode with all the new things to explore and see in Papa's backyard. The project was to add a "rock climbing" wall on the side of an existing playground. He had all the lumber and the finger grips to attach, we just had to cut all the parts and assemble. Ended up being a really cool project and the kids love it. Best part was it was something we could all do together.
The only bummer of the day was it was one of the hottest days on record here. They actually received a reverse 911 call because of the extreme heat. And what are we doing, outside in the direct sun light building erecting a wall. All I can say is that my clothes we soaked with sweat through and through, I had to take my 2nd shower of the day after that project was complete. The kids never did stop sweating all day long. We had a BBQ out back, once the sun started to set it cooled off a little, introduced the kids to the endless summer fun of catching lighting bugs. They thought that was the coolest thing ever. We had a little cage they could but them in, I am not sure how many they caught before we put a cap on it. My wife hadn't seen a lighting bug either, so I introduced her the only way I knew how, I caught one, and smashed the glowing element out of the bugs but and smeared it on her arm! She was grossed out, but it was well worth it! Sometime around midnight I took my 3rd shower of the day. It makes me enjoy the low humidity region I live in.
Sunday was a blast as we went into my grandma's house and had a BBQ with all my family on that side. It was so good to see my cousins and all of there kids who I hadn't had a chance to meet until this last weekend. The weather was much better and with a breeze was close to perfect. Took my boys down to the Lexington HS football field were my dad used to play football at all those years ago. I explained to him that Papa used to play on this field and run track around this field when he was in high school. They looked at me and asked when dinner was? Hopefully down the road Isaac remembers it somewhere in that expanding mind of his. We had a great time catching up, Grandma out did herself with all kids of food and sides. I even walked down to the ice cream shop that I have had almost every time I visit. Had the same Sherbert and Vanilla twist cone, and the taste was the same as it always has been. Took me back a few years.
Monday morning was full of physical labor. My dad had spotted a tree that had fell in the corn field. So I learned how to sharpen a chainsaw chain, once we had sharpened 2 chains, we oiled and filled the saws with gas. Then started walking, and walking around the field, through the woods and finally we came upon a tree that was laying in the field. It took my dad and I 2 hours to cut up and pull that tree piece by piece out of the field. Turns out it was a large section of a walnut tree. We were able to get 2 piece of tree that still are 10' plus and 20-22" in diameter. My dad knows a guy with a portable saw mill and for a small fee with cut that tree up in whatever thickness you desire. Once we got that out of the way we hiked back to the house for lunch and a shower. After lunch my dad helped me fabricate a jig for a project. Didn't take that long and it turned out great. For dinner we had camp fire pizza's and apple pie, not a bad way at all to end a day.
Seems my week has been more jammed packed then I originally thought, I need to turn in for the night, but I will have to tell you about the rest of my vacation at a later date.
Only have 2 more days with my wife and kids before they head off to Montana for the rest of the month. I plan on making the best of those two days.
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