Anyone notice my lack of pictures lately?

That's because my camera is broken, again!!! I brought it with us to Michigan this weekend and thought it needed new batteries. I bought some, but it still didn't even come on. Grr...SO, I will have to give you wonderful descriptions of our 2 days in Holland.

We just barely fit in my parents' boat when it was the 4 of us; now that we are 5 there are definitely not enough places to sleep--unless someone... ahem... passes out, I mean sleeps out on the deck. We drove up on Friday morning not knowing if we would camp (the cheap option) or get a hotel room due to the forecasted severe weather. It did drizzle on and off, but it seemed fairly harmless, so Brian and I dropped the kids at the marina to swim with my parents and we drove around the lake to the state park campground. We got one of the three spots left and set up our tent in the rain. It wasn't a bad rain though, just the lightly steady warm variety. I just can't stand the thought of spending $100 on a place to sleep for the night. So, when we got back to the boat the kids had swam and were about done being cooped up in a very small space so we decided to go for a walk in this wooded park where we wouldn't get too wet. It was the perfect time to do this! The rain had cooled the air enough that walking up 100 steps at a time wasn't too hot, and you could hear the light drips on the trees above (when Elijah wasn't talking anyway) and it made this sort of mystical canopy around us. By the time we got back it was definitely dinner time and the rain had let up so we decided to grill some hot dogs. Now if you have never spent time at a marina before let me explain to you how not easy it is to entertain a crowd--especially with kids. First of all, the boat is almost at the end of a long dock. So, if we want to eat up in the picnic area, you have to haul all the food up from the boat, down the dock and around the playground. If you forget something at the boat, guess what you have to do? As we are waiting for the hot dogs and making 5 trips back and forth to the boat for forgotten dinner supplies we notice some very strange looking clouds. We are watching them come in over the lake and a small crowd is starting to form. Within about 10 minutes we are noticing not only clouds, but out on the water you can see sheets of rain and the wind is starting to blow. The temperature dropped about 15 degrees in a matter of minutes. Brian now has the baby under his shirt and we decide to make a dash for the boat. Not before the rain got to us. We scooped up all the multiple trips of dinner in one large handful and walked...FAST (no running on the dock) back to the boat. So we ate dinner in the boat and as fast as this storm came, it was gone. Only leaving upper 60's for temp. and a beautiful sunset. I'll save day 2 for another post. Boy, pictures sure would've made this post shorter (I'm thinking about 1,000 words).