We drove to the camp this morning to get Tacie. My mother went with us. The girls put on a horse show for the parents and we got to enjoy what she'd been working on. They did a quadrille (like a drill team with horses). They also did a number of relay races (boot race, water race, izzy dizzy race).
We left mid-day and had the unfortunate experience to run into some road construction on the Interstate. It turned a 90 minute drive into a 3 hour drive. It could have been frustrating but we just spent the time enjoying each other's company. Tacie told us about her camp. We told her what had been happening. She didn't receive our letter although she did receive the box they were in and all the other things in the box. We didn't receive her 4 letters until all at once today! She taught us some of the camp songs. We commented on interesting license plates.
Tomorrow we start our long drive on the Laura Ingalls Wilder trail. Just about everything is ready. The laundry is done. We packed all our clothes. We set up the tent and blew up the air mattress to be sure it all still worked. We have all our books on CD. We have some DVDs for the girls to watch on my laptop computer. Tomorrow is my birthday so we'll go when I wake up.
We're all very happy to be together again for today; we'll definitely miss Bruce next week.
