A/C at girls camp (not home)

I have been wanting to blog for a long time. Claire had her birthday two weeks ago. When she got back from her dad's we had done most of the construction on a bunk and loft bed we designed for her and the girls. We did not allow her to go upstairs or to her room until her friends arrived for the slumber party. That was the Thursday they got out of school for the summer. I have not posted pictures of the bed because it is still unfinished. Hopefully I will be able to get pretty it up just right while the kids are with their dad a little later this summer.

The first morning we finally had all the kids here, I woke the kids up a little before 6AM to go to the temple for baptisms and realized there was something horribly wrong with the A/C in the middle of an unseasonal heat spike of triple digit temps. Because it was the weekend, nobody was able to do more than tell us what was wrong with it. We decided it would be better to buy a new unit than try to replace that one. To keep ourselves "cool" we spent 4 hours at the pool in the heat of the day. We spent the next two air-conditionerless days in utter misery as we tried to cope with the added heat of our burning flesh. Andrew did not put on sunscreen and has a severe second degree burn on his shoulders. A week later, the rest of us are just starting to shed that top layer of damaged skin.

We sought relief in a hotel on Monday night after the girls headed off to girl's camp and their air-conditioned cabins. We were able to get everything replaced by Tuesday afternoon and live like civilized people--or Texas girls at girl's camp.

Speaking of which, in case you hadn't gathered it, all 3 of my older girls were at camp this year. I think it was a good experience for them, but Claire did not seem that talkative about details.

Mike left around 11pm for a supersonic drive to Arizona to drop off the car Marissa just bought from a person here in Dallas. He will fly back Sunday. I will sleep in my bed now