spruce woods

july11th - july13th 2007
officially the most beautiful place ever. its been like 2 years since we've gone and i definitely missed it. we left decently early... hailey had a complete meltdown in the car and stressed everyone out 100%, so we got takeout at mickeyd's instead of sitting in. i hate eating food like that it makes you feel so gross.. but yeah so anyways we arrived at spruce woods and got our spot and whatnot. we had a helluva time backing in. but we eventually got it. our first time in an actual campground with the new camper! i dont remember really everything we did. i know we went and got wood.. me liss and dad. mom and i went for a walk down and saw the beach and then we went to the pine fort and looked around in the store and such. after we had supper.. all of us went for a walk with hailey to the park :D she played and afterwards we went and got ice cream. mom and dad bought hailey some sand toys.. and then im pretty sure we just went back and sat around the fire for a bit. i read my AP (which mom tried to steal a few times) and dad and lissa played crib. oh yeah and sometime during this day dad hit hailey a few times. it kinda hurts my heart. but besides that, my sleep wednesday night was horrible, everytime i went to fall asleep i would wake up again, and i didnt fall asleep until like 4am. but this was the first time hailey slept in the bed and not in her playpen. the first night wasnt that good because she was up all the time, but she slept all through the night thursday night. but anyways, on thursday we had breakfast and such, then we headed out to the marshs lake trail. it ended up being super hot by the time we were done, but hailey was good! she wanted to be carried a lot, but thats okay. we saw a whole bunch of turtles, like more than ive ever seen in one place before, all on this log out on the lake. they were sunbathing hahaha, then we made it to the floating bridge. we all stood on it but never made it across because it was covered in .. well, water. so we looked at all the lilies in the water and continued on. there wasnt much on the rest of the trail except for the info boards (i dont know what to call them haha) and A LOT of bees and flies. there were a lot of pretty flowers though! a zillion degrees later we were back to the truck, and we went to glenboro to the store. honestly, that town scares me haha. we bought groceries and such and then went back to the campground. dad and lissa and i went and got ice and more wood, then just hung around the campground until hailey was awake. then we went to the beach! there were tons of people there. alissa and i played with hailey (her first time at a beach!) we made sandcastles and such, and then there was this one point where the sun went behind the clouds and all of the sudden everyone was leaving. it ended up that there was us and 4 other people with the whole beach to ourselves. it was an amazing feeling. we hung out there for a bit longer and then went back to the suburban, hailey played at the park a bit then we came back for supper. we just had hot dogs haha, too tired to make a full meal. we didnt really do much of anything after supper, i was taught how to play crib and then we had a tournamentish thing. me and mom kicked! haha. afterwards we just kinda sat by the fire and played association. then mom started screaming because she heard something behind her, which actually turned out to be a racoon. i saw him! he was cute! haha, we got freaked out after that so we went to bed. i slept really good. i woke up the next morning and made french toast for everyone. (i must admit, it was good) then dad and lissa and i went on the isputinaw. its hard now because we have hailey so someone always has to stay behind. i really missed mom on it, it was always a family thing we did and we couldnt do it this year :( but it was amazing nonetheless. prettiest place ever i will repeat, the view in so many parts of that hike is breathtaking. it was nice and cool in some parts and nice and warm in others. it goes from marsh to dryland and back again, its amazing. when we were done with that, we went to find out what a "yurt" was because it had been puzzling us since we got there... and we discovered it was a like tent/cabin you can rent. which is really sweet, and theres a picture of the thing on my flickr. i really want to rent one haha. but then we went back to the campsite and packed everything up and pulled out. mom and lissa and i went to the gift shop while dad and hailey went back to the park. we got a magnet for the camper, a shirt for dad and one for hailey too, and a couple bears in a boat for auntie&bob :) then we just headed home and it was pretty uneventful, except that we almost hit a car of old ladies

i've decided im going to post this at the bottom of either random posts, or all posts, from now on.
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kenosee in 4/5 days!! meeting my best friend in 24 days!!