Day 13

Date: Saturday July 18, 2015

Location at the beginning of the day: Gogebic State Park

Distance to drive: 0

Hours to drive: 0

Destination: nowhere

Planned activities: relax

Quote of the day: “I don’t think this is what I asked for, for my birthday!”

I have officially decided that I am no longer celebrating my birthday on July 18.  It has nothing to do with getting older, it just seems that over the last few years, when I decide to celebrate my birthday things don’t turn out.  My day started at 3am when it started to rain.  I got out of bed to close the two roof vents and windows so that we wouldn’t get wet.  The people next to us started up their motor home to warm up before they left at 5am.  Soon after that the rain really started coming down, so I had to go outside to pull the towels in so that they didn’t get soaked.  Upon returning to bed I realized that the artificial grass that we have at the entrance of the trailer is larger than the awning and was currently getting wet.  Once I folded in the grass, I returned to bed and realized I had just received my first birthday present: a massive mosquito bite on my cheek.  The sun was barely up and my day was off to a spectacular start.

My wish for the day was a relaxed day at the campsite.  I don’t think I got to sit because the little one was crabby and demanding most of the day.  My only reprieve was when Chad took each girl out for a boat ride in the seven foot inflatable zodiac.  Not a problem I had dinner to look forward to.  Chad was making steak, potatoes, Caesar salad and we had bought a nice bottle of wine.  I read my book by the fire, while Chad cooked dinner.  By the time we were ready to eat the mosquitos were so bad that we couldn’t even eat our food without eating them.  We decided to continue our meal in the truck because we had already collapsed the table in the trailer and the girls were asleep.  We jumped into the truck to realize that it was crazy hot from the sun beating in the front window all day.  Unfortunately we didn’t have a choice.  I took off my hoodie and rolled up my sweatpants. 

Quote of the day: “Not exactly what I had envisioned for your birthday dinner dear!”

Don’t worry folks it gets better.  About half way through dinner, it was so hot and steamy (think hot yoga) that I suggested that we open and close the doors a couple of times to try to drop the temperature.  As I closed my door to continue eating, I knocked over my glass of red wine.  It splashed all down the dash, but mostly into my lap.  I got to enjoy the remainder of my birthday dinner in sauna conditions with soggy from my k