August 23

4:38 pm
Today we woke up, had breakfast int he cafiteria at Hope, attended a seminar for the first year parrents, ate Lunch, and then Dad drove the kids and I back to the campground and then he had to leave for somemore first year parrent classes. While he was gone, the kids and I rode our bikes down a nicely paved bike trail to the beach which was about a mile away. We sat next to the peir for a little while, taking photos of sailboats, and then we went down to the actual beach area. Matt made a sandcastle, while Nana complained about being at the beach. Bunny flopped all over the sand, and then decieded to dig a big hole and I read "The House of the Seven Gables". When Miss Nana had discovered that complaining wasn't working, she helped Bunny with his hole and once bored with that setled down to read "the Two Towers".

The beach was really crowded. but the breeze that came off the lake was realy nice. It had been SO humid in Holland the past few days, and people with excema don't do well in humidity.

Oh, we forgot to bring sunscreen with us to the beach, so I burnt. Silly me. I remembered to put on suncreen every single day of vecation, except this one. :P I guess I get to pay for that. It wasn't a mild sunburn either. It was so bad that it actully caused my skin to tan a tad bit, which is something that my skin jsut doesn't do.

We will be heading home tommorrow to attend Mr. Humphry's funeral. That will be the end of vacation for this year. I'm so very tired. Dad will be coming back to the campground at 5:00 to take us back to Hope for supper.

9:05
Sleep sounds lovely. Getting to sleep in the camper is impossible to do until the boys fall asleep. When they are awake they flop all over the camper, kicking and yelling for eachother to stay "on your side of the bed". When ever they move the camper shakes.