Vacation...Or Not

We went on vacation to Lake of the Ozarks a few weeks ago with some friends, it didn't go well. Here's a brief list of how bad it was:

-I forgot my camera, seriously! Didn't realize it until we were almost to the lake.

-Our lake house we rented was a bit uncomfortable. Example=the bed in our bedroom squeaked so loud that it woke CC up each night just by sitting down on the bed. So Matt would get in bed, CC would wake up, I would pick her up and bounce her so she didn't wake anyone else up, and then when she was asleep I would levitate over the bed to get some rest :(

-We were suppose to be able to use the path from the house to walk right down to the lake and fish. However, the path was last used in 1995 it seemed and there was no way we could trek down to the lake. So we ended up hiking up and down a huge hill to go fishing.

-It rained, and rained, and rained while we were supposed to be outside enjoying nature.

-When we finally did catch a break from the rain we decided to take all the kids swimming at the swim beach close. Only it was closed due to bateria. So we drove quite a ways to get to a different beach that had recently been closed but was now open.

-It started raining while we were swimming.

-One of the guys lost his wedding ring in the lake.

-Same guy that lost his wedding ring discovered his van wouldn't start when we were ready to leave the lake. Dead battery + no one having jumper cables = not a good time. Here we were 6 adults, 5 kids, and two babies stuck at the lake in the rain.

-Madelyn fell while waiting in the parking lot and skinned up her leg and hand pretty good. Lots of tears.

-The rain stirred up a wasp nest at the front door of our lake house and Matt got stung twice.

-Madelyn got stung by a wasp...in the rear end. At this point she is begging to go home.

Summary: It wasn't the greatest time.