We woke up this morning a little bit bummed because we thought for sure that the trick or treating evening here would be a bust. After I had my bagel-well, wait. The first time I woke up this morning was to make sure that Graham left in time for the ACT this morning. Campbell did her job to double check him, but I would bet that he didn't have any problems getting up to leave. He did actually say that the test was fine, but he wasn't too sure about the math portion.
After we ate our breakfasts, Robby and I went on a walk around the campground. These people continued to put decorations up this morning-Robby wouldn't let me tell them to stop and remind them that it was going to rain. It was like we were the only people in the campground with a weather app.
When we finished our walk, Robby and I left to run to Walmart. Reagan and some friends were coming for supper so we needed some birthday cupcakes. We bought those and some glow sticks before heading back to Lake Catherine.
It was starting to rain by the time that we made it back. The rain stopped some, and we carried on watching football, preparing supper, and just relaxing. I was about to go to sleep when the weather picked up, and there was a tornado warning in Arkadelphia.
Anderson had just gotten off the bus from his trip (He said that he really enjoyed it-the NBA game was his favorite, and the whole trip felt like it was a vacation and not a learning trip. Business wise, he enjoyed the Hobby Lobby headquarters the best.) I think that they were trying to get to the dorms while their sirens were going off.
At one point, I saw on the tv that hail could be up to an inch so I suggested that he go and lay over his car. He told me that they were not letting them out of the dorms. Reagan said that her group had to go downstairs twice this afternoon. I'm fine with all of that since downtown Arkadelphia was destroyed when I was at school there from a tornado.
They got the all clear, and a few minutes later all of our phones went off. We were now in a tornado watch from another storm. Of course, when we are at home, I can look at a map of pulaski county and see some roads and know exactly where we are, but when we are not at home, that is a little harder.
The weather was on, and Robby said that maybe we would have to go to the bathhouse which is just right next to us. When the phones went off, Whitman came down from the top bunk. When we started getting our shoes on and finding Bentley's leash just in case, he started to take note. Storms don't wig him out, and we are super relaxed about things, but this did concern him a bit. After a few minutes, the ranger did drive by with his sirens on so we did take that as our cue to head to the bathhouse.
I believe that this was our 4th tornado in the camper-twice at Degray (on the same trip) and one at Bull Shoals. Bull Shoals was not a tornado but straight line winds. If you remember those winds took out trees by our campsite with trees falling right near our camper. We sent Sophia and Keaton out of the camper and told them to run to the bathhouse while Robby and I had to wait on Whitman to put his shoes on. Huge trees fell all over the campground including right by the sidewalk that we had to run on to get to the bathhouse.
Thankfully, today was nothing like that here at least. It was raining pretty good so we just went inside of the men's restroom. A few other people stood under the awning for a bit, but we didn't want to get too wet. Robby watched the weather while Whitman and I text people and took selfies.
When the weather man gave us the all clear we headed back to the camper. By this time, it was raining so hard, and we were all pretty drenched-though Robby was wearing his new birthday shoes from Nonna, and his feet stayed cozy dry.
I had successfully tracked Anderson back to OBU from Oklahoma, but now Graham and Keaton were driving to pick up supper. It wasn't raining at home so that was good, but Reagan and her friends were driving here to eat supper with us.
I'm going to pause this blog here-an acorn just fell on our roof. Each one that falls sounds like a gun shot-they have been falling all day. However, every time it happens at least one of us jumps, and poor Bentley has not clue what they are and jumps every single time.
When Reagan and her people arrived, the rain had stopped, and we walked around the main loop. For it to have been such a rainy and yucky day, there were still quite a few people walking around. I forgot to take a picture of Whitman, but he opted to be a construction worker this year. He is so polite-he waits patiently in a line letting people go in front of him, and then he always says thank you afterwards.
He managed to get a decent bag full of candy-it is not like trick or treating in Maumelle-but it was a good amount. We even walked back through the campground for him to go through the haunted house. Reagan and her people had already gone through it after taking some pictures by the lake.
For supper, we had a chicken tortellini dish along with salad and bread. We pulled out some cupcakes for Lena's birthday plus, of course, there was candy. We ate inside since we had set nothing up, but the girls visited, and I think that they enjoyed the evening-we certainly did.
We picked up when they left which didn't take long. Then Robby and I climbed into the bed. I have a book that I could read-I finished one yesterday and am doing pretty good on my new one. Plus I'll have a super warm shower later, and maybe tomorrow we will sleep in a little bit!
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