A Great Day at Camp Moosie

Tim and Gwen's place has been called Camp Moosie and there is an awesome moose in their front yard to celebrate their "Alaska Heritage". I'll have to remember to snap a picture of it before we leave because I love it.

The whole group, minus Spencer, who was having a bit of a melt down this afternoon. Thankfully, he recovered.

We started our day with our coffee and devotional reading times and four of the six of us took extreme water conserving showers here in the trailer. The kids could barely wait to get back into the house and receive some more of that wonderful stroking attention that comes from performing for an adoring crowd. ;O)

A wonderful breakfast of fruit and yummy muffins and cinnamon rolls was provided for us. There was also apple cider that Tim and Gwen produced themselves from apples grown right here on their property. There was also grape juice made from concord grapes grown right here too.

We all left to caravan down to Tim and Gwen's church which started at 10:30 am. Our group took up a row and a half plus of seats there. We felt privileged to be a part of the family atmosphere there and to hear the message from God's Word being opened to us. The pastor was really gifted and able to present a passage of scripture that most of us were pretty familiar with in a very different way and one that really related to each person there.

After church, we came back to Tim and Gwen's to begin lunch prep. Heidi got out for a bit and ran with the Slabaugh's dogs all over the property. She loved it, but it was not planned and that's always a little stressful. The ticks are really bad at this time of year here, I guess, and we've pulled about 5-6 off of her today. Thankfully they haven't been too embedded, but Sheesh! She is a tick magnet. Talk about heebie jeebies.

Lunch was absolutely the best steaks we've had for such a long time and really yummy sauteed mushrooms and baked potatoes, more yummy asparagus, rolls and garden salad. Gwen has some fabulous balsamic vinegars from a place, I think it was called Devo, where they age it 18 years. It was very delicious.

Spencer and Tim sharing a moment and Tim's chair ;O)

Everyone had a good time visiting and laughing while the food digested. Brock and I ended up running into town to get gas in the Yukon and pick up some needed items at another Walmart. We were able to pick up a gps unit for the Rostecks and a webcam for Tim and Gwen so that they can Skype now. Betty presented each family with a goody bag of items to make our car trips more bearable and then Gwen called all the ladies into the dining room and gave each of us an opportunity to pick from a pile of hand knitted scarves that she had made. They were beautiful! What a lot of time and talented handiwork!

One of a kind scarves for each of us...from Gwen
(Gwen, Sharon Rosteck, Sharon Cox, Me, Betty, (front) Brynna and Sarah)

Finally in the evening, we all piled into three of our cars and headed in to town again to try some of Andy's Famous Frozen Custard. It was very goood. Several different combinations were sampled and I didn't hear anyone say anything less than stellar about their choices. Skylar chose a strawberry shortcake sundae which was funny because he'd already had strawberry shortcake for dessert after lunch. I guess he really likes strawberry shortcake.

After custard, we drove around a little bit looking to see if there were any hotrods still hanging around town because there was an event at the fairgrounds this weekend, but it looked to be over and we didn't see any.

We caravan'd back to the house and it was actually past time for the kids to be in bed so we pretty much went straight to that.

We did figure out today that our water conserving showers were not enough and we actually filled our gray tank in pretty much one day which is disappointing, so I washed a few dishes in the house before brushing my teeth and heading back out to the trailer.

Tomorrow, we are all heading down to Branson where we have an RV site reserved and everyone else has two condos at a Worldmark resort close by the campground and we anticipate some more wonderful memories will be made.