Demolition Derby at the Fair

Tonight we went to the Lucas County Fair and saw the demolition derby! I had no idea what to expect. When I first saw the space I was surprised how small the area was they there were driving around in.. and they had 8 car in there! I quickly found myself rooting for the cars and smash-ups. It was a lot of fun!! It reminded me a lot of Battlebots (what a great show!) and of course bumper cars. We saw several cars come up over the barriers. One car caught on fire and we also got to see pickup trucks competing. The show was almost two hours long, but definately a night of fun!

Number 47 was the winner of the derby.

The car was still moving up until the point he got pinned in - amazing since the back and front of his car were smashed up in the air, and the passenger door was too!

New water camera case... and an Ooops!

I bought this cool water case for our camera in anticipation of our upcoming trip to Cancun. It works really well - other than it being a little awkward to wait for the camera to focus, but the pictures turned out good I thought. I can't wait to get some shots of tropical fish!!




Ironically this is what we were doing when we were supposed to be at a birthday party! What a dummie I was - I got an invitation from Emma, Sydney's good friend from school and our neighbor, and I wrote it on my calendar for the wrong day!! I thought it was 8/2/09 instead of 8/1/09. I was so bummed when I found out we had missed it. I was sick to my stomach, upset at what a dumb mistake I had made. I vow to pay closer attention to details and write stuff down correctly from now on!! :(

Camping at East Harbor State Park

This was our first trip to East Harbor. The park was nice, but unless you were camping on a cul-de-sac, it was very crowded, without much space between the sites. Our site was very private, we liked it alot. This weekend was the Christmas in July weekend, so people decorated their sites with lights and other displays which was fun to see.

Zack got to use his new camping chair. Not surprising, we had to buy one for Sydney too as she thought Zack's chair was now bigger than hers (which it really wasn't).





A big surprise was a "meow" we heard from the bushes. It was a cat! A very friendly, and probably hungry, cat came out of the woods and hung out with us all night.





It rained a lot on Saturday morning, and the people next to us packed up their stuff and went home because they were in tents. We just laughed at them was we watched DVD's all morning in the comfort of our nice dry camper. haha





We went to see Santa and Mrs Claus, but Zack was less than thrilled to talk to them.





One of the nature items to see at East Harbor are the glacial grooves. I remember seeing these as a kid when we camped here. Sydney had some other thoughts on what the glacial grooves would be and went to go pout (and probably cry!) and she told us they weren't cool. Here she is pouting!!





The beach was very soft and sandy. In fact, the majority of it had a sandbar! That was nice for the kids to go play on, while I enjoyed laying on the beach :)









We made a camping speciality, "fire pies". We were very careful this time not to burn them, like we often do. The kids actually ate several of them, this will be added to our camping menu!





On the way home we stopped at the Marblehead lighthouse.




This place was cool because we could see Cedar Point. So close, but so far away. *sigh*