We just returned from our second camping trip of the year on Saturday. What a nice time it was, much warmer than the first one. I only wore 2 shirts instead of 4. Strangely, Jim got colder this time? I can never figure out how his body temperature is regulated…. Eden and Honor had a nice time too. Eden was very interested in the water at the lake (pond) and walked out right into it. I was not there and Jim had to deal with the wet feet all by himself. Ha ha! (Isn’t it awful that I get all happy when he has to deal with what is my everyday life?)

Our second trip was made with my Aunt Ann, Uncle David and cousins, Alyssa and David. While we were sitting around the camp fire we noticed two glowing orbs dancing in the distance. After much conjecture, it was decided that the glowing orbs were a man that someone saw earlier fishing on the bank of the lake sitting in a lawn chair with tiki lamps on either side. He was walking around holding the two tiki lamps.

A mini van pulled up to the man. After about five minutes of conversation that I would loved to have heard, the van started moving. We suddenly realized that tiki man was in the van! The tiki lamps were being held out the window. It ceremoniously reminiscent of the olympic torch runners. As the mini van circled around the campground and past our site, my 13 year old cousin couldn’t help but yell a shout of encouragement, “Tiki Man!!!” The rest of the evening was dotted with intermittent comments about David building a bon fire and inviting Tiki Man to come and dance around it with him. Oh, how I wish I could have got a picture of Tiki Man!!