DAY FORTY FOUR: Camping Aftermath

We waited until the temp dropped below 90 to set up the tent, to minimize the heating.  That meant the tent didn't go up until after 10.  And it was still 87.

Leslie and Kenna popped out of the house to check the progress, and Les asked, "Why are the animals making so much noise?  It's night time."  After explaining that many animals are nocturnal- and what nocturnal was- she gave a disapproving look.

It was nearly 11 before we were all in the tent- part of this was planned so that the girls would be super tired and go straight to sleep, but part was just us being slow.  We tried to get the dog to stay out with us, but she much preferred the air conditioned house.

She was the smart one.

At first we all laid down quietly to try and get some sleep, but it was just too hot.  I got up to sit by the tent window where a teeny-tiny breeze could be felt.  Soon, all four of us crowded around the window, and Kenna pointed out a star "that's moving."  Kristin, Leslie and I attempted to correct her when we all realized that Kenna was the only who could see anything- the rest of us were without our corrective lenses.  So, we let her be.

We tried to sleep again, and the sweat just poured off of us.  None of us were in a bag- except Kenna- and there was just no cooling off.  Slowly, everyone dozed off.  Then I was woken by a dog barking.  Ours.  In the house.  I quieted her down and went back to sleep.

Kristin and I slept in the middle, each of us with only one kid beside us.  Leslie was next to me, and I woke up about four times in the night because of this.  The first time, she was laying in an L shape with her head in my back.  The second was an L shape with her feet in my back.  The third time, she straightened out and rolled to put her feet in my hamstrings.  Finally, I woke to find her sideways at my feet.  She woke, realized this, and crawled back to her starting point.

Kenna, apparently, never moved.

Needless to say, Kristin and I needed copious amounts of caffeine today.

I worked on replacing an old toilet paper holder in the guest bath and thus did my first ever work with drywall.  Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.

We went swimming again, and discovered that the female lifeguards are jerks who make up rules not posted on the rule board.  For instance, parents cannot be nearby the slide to catch kids coming down.  Yet they will allow kids with life preservers- aka they can't swim- to go down the slide.  This makes sense, no?

The cool news of the day is that I got a job interview for Venture Academy, the alternative (DAEP for those in the know) school for 7th -12th graders in CSISD.  It'll be Friday at 11, so the first step toward employment is taken.  Hopefully, tomorrow is Kristin's turn.  She got her resume in to Bryan ISD today for several positions, and emailed her principal from her subbing about another CSISD one.  We'll see!