May 31, 2007--My craft booth and anniversary trip

I got my booth set up. I'm happy with the way it looks, although I'm worried that I may have overpriced some of my items. I was hoping that the lady that owns the place would be there and I could ask her if my prices were okay, but she wasn't. So I'm just praying that they are fair and that people will want to buy my things. Here's a picture of how it looks all set up:

I just got back today from our camping trip. Actually, that's not entirely true--we came back yesterday. We had intended on going for two nights, but we got up to the park and found out the beach doesn't open up until this weekend. They were open for Memorial weekend, but then closed back up for a couple of days and re-opened for the season on Saturday. We had really been looking forward to swimming--that was one of the four things we had planned to do: Camp, swim, hike, and take our little two-man inflatable boat out on the lake. So we decided to start by paying for one night and then we could decide the next day what we should do. So the next day we started by going out and trying our little boat out on the lake. There are actually two lakes, and they are connected, but they used to be a quarry a long time ago. Back in the days of the Wabash and Erie Canal which runs through the park, they used to run stone from the quarry down the canal. Then one day, a worker hit a spring which was an arm from a giant underground river, and the quarry filled up with water overnight. There are still railroad cars under the lake at the bottom of the quarry. They allow scuba divers to go down there and see them. We took our boat out on the smaller lake, not the one with the beach. This one had campsites set up along it, and we had one right by the lake. It's kind of murkey and swamp-like, but in the middle it's very deep and fairly clear. The two-man boat was very small--I think it could be called a two small person boat. Erick is twice my weight, and his side was rather far into the water. At one point he shifted a bit to get comfortable and water came in on his side. He decided that it was time to row the boat ashore! When we got back to the campsite, we could see raccoon prints all over the car. R.J. must have been trying to get our blue cooler out of there. We saw a lot of different animals, including a turtle and a deer. We hiked around the quarry that morning, too--up on the cliffs that go around the edge. It was so beautiful, but I was getting kind of freaked out when Erick was getting too close to the edge with my camera to take pictures! After we had done everything at the park we had planned to do, we went back home (only fifteen miles away) and looked up pools on the internet. We found there was one in a nearby town and went there. I didn't even know they had a swimming pool there, and the price was really reasonable. They had a big waterslide, too. We stayed there about forty minutes, came home and watched Laurel and Hardy movies, and went to bed. Today we went to another park and walked around, went out to eat, and then I dropped him off at work and went and picked up the kids. I really enjoyed the last couple of days. This is a picture of Erick standing on the cliff. He's pointing at some big fish he sees down in the water. At that point I gave him the camera--he wanted me to take pictures, and I was too chicken to get close enough to do it myself. I still couldn't watch him. I had no idea I was that wimpy!