411 The Walters Bunch

 I only had 2 barely started zucchinis before we left for vacation. No rain. Six days with temperatures around 100 and no water ....AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED! We only were home a week before L and T left for church camp. I will say that saying church camp is probably misleading. You might imagine a vacation bible school kind of camp. You know, snacks, art, and a Bible verse. Well, this is that....on steroids....times 10000. This camp is an experience. The camp is called Falls Creek. It is in Oklahoma. It is legendary. This is THE largest faith camp in the country and it is easy to see why. It is basically its own christian based city. Activities are ALL day. Literally. Breakfast is at 8am and 11pm is bed. They not only have morning and evening worship, but also content specific sessions the kids can pick to attend. There is probably 50 different sessions they can pick from. There is also a ton of recreational activities. They can play on the basketball court, which T and his friends pr

  D and I were surprised at how much we enjoyed our time at the beach. After such a busy Day 3, we decided to take it easy on Day 4. This is turned out to be a good idea since the site next to us was under construction and having a fire pit added. The workers basically just blew sand ALL over our stuff, including the towels and swimsuits we had drying outside. Our trip was fantastic except for this. We did complain to management about this, but just got an I am sorry response. Since everything was covered in sand D and I decided to go ahead and do some laundry. This was the best laundry experience I have ever had! The kids stayed in the camper to play games so D and I headed up to the main area by ourselves. We got our laundry started and decided to give the resort's frozen margaritas a whirl. It was so nice to sit on the deck in the shade with fantastic views, enjoying the breeze and listening to the music from the pool below. The hour and a half we were waiting on the laundry jus

There were beautiful sunsets. The only planned out day we had while in Galveston was on our third day. L had wanted to visit Moody Gardens and see the rainforest exhibit and the aquarium. Downtown Galveston was about half an hour from our site and we wanted to get there at 10 am when they opened because of the heat wave. We figured we would tour the rain forest exhibit first. My thinking was the rain forest had to be crazy hot and humid so if we did that first we could then tour the air conditioned aquarium during the hottest part of the afternoon. It was crazy humid and hot in Galveston, but it was actually bareable if you were near the ocean. The wind off the gulf was crazy high, but helped create a cool breeze. I was surprised when we got to the rain forest exhibit and it had air conditioning. It wasn't set up to cool the whole building obviously, but there were vents blowing on to the walk way for the patrons to be comfortable. It really made the experience more enjoyable. The