The weekend of June 20-22, Torrin, Mira, and I all got sunburned. Torrin, being the fairest-skinned, was the worst hit. Especially in combination with his 7-year-old lack of know-how in regards to sun safety. He swears he put sunblock on that day, but his cherry-lipstick-red shoulders begged to differ. I wasn't with him; he'd gone with a group fishing that morning, which I didn't think would be a terribly fun activity for Mira. I didn't see him again until it was dark.
The first night, Thursday the 19th, we drove out to the campgrounds as planned. Then, a storm rolled up with ominous green-tinted clouds that soon spewed their soggy glory. We took the three vans full of kids back to my workplace for an impromptu sleepover at the Center.
Although the campsites were muddy, the rest of the trip fared much better. Unfortunately the set-up wasn't as well-accustomed to the kind of luminous photos that last year's camping trip yielded, but the park offered more activities and the food was better. There was a better mix of kids in attendance (i.e., not predominantly one family represented). Torrin opted not to go horseback riding, and since Mira is too little, I didn't get pictures of that particular foray. On the last day, upon our departure, I had a scare that I'd lost my camera. My loyal camera which has traveled with me to Spain, Washington DC, Phoenix, Minneapolis, and Wisconsin, not to mention tons of local stuff and my kiddos. Fortunately I found it under some damp towels smushed in the van when we got back into town, in the same condition I'd last seen it.
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Glad you made it back safe, and the camera is ok. I have to see pixs of you all, lol!
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Having been at that campout that you think was all one family with bad food I question your memory of it. Due in large part to the fact that you spent most of the time flirting with another staff member who became your boyfriend. Oh, and there was the part where you left on Saturday night to attend a going away party, where you had alcoholic beverages and then returned to the campsite. Maybe its just me!
We need some pictures from the weekend and I'm glad you found your camera too.
Uh, "Anonymous," actually my memory is quite good. The one line aside was not meant as a criticism of last year's trip, but perhaps you are taking that a bit personally. I didn't say the food was BAD or ALL one family. Myself, I am not much of a drinker, either. But to each his own.
Your a smart girl! Look around you, are you one of them, one of the imposters. Seeking for deeper connection to there people or pretending to be real when everyone knows they are fake. Is this you? Maybe it is.
Tell me, when you go to the Omaha Nation Powwow do you see ANY of your Omaha co-workers? Think about that....in fact you won't see any of them in that circle at the Lincoln powwow that your employer is sponsoring. Interesting huh?
The truth isn't always surface. You really have no idea who is from what family and how they are truely related. Comments like all one family is what they are currently saying. Cycle nevers ends does it? Part of the problem or the soluntion? Which are you? Secondly, you have no understanding for food and its customs or you would have gotten why the food wasn't great. Can't explain it if you have to bases for understanding. Thirdly, what no comment about the flirting? Come on....everyone knew.
I repeat, I did not state that last years' food was BAD.
Also, if you have a personal bone you want to pick, that's fine. I did not think this was necessarily the best place. As far as "flirting," you guys were bothering me about a flirtation before there even was one. In any case it was not at a detriment to working. I am not sure why you are so dead-set on taking those two little comments out of context (here, on my personal blog) and making them into something they are not. Nor do I purport to know anything which I do not. Remember also that I was not raised by someone who knows anything significant about her background. You are lucky to have that. Finally, just to reiterate...I was not criticisizing or attacking...whereas you are.
Not personal at all.....I don't want you to get the wrong idea. When so many people say so many negative things. One is tempted to always defend. I just never saw you that way and didn't think you were that way. Calling out what is wrong and saying what no one else would isn't always the most comfortable. Remember, everything is a circle. What you put out always comes back around. I say this as advice. The truth isn't always surface. I never engaged but I realized I was covered in it by association. It just so happened that you are the lastest talker in a long line of screamers. I realize you weren't screaming...but from my perspective at first glance it appeared to be so.
Okay.
Let me just say--I didn't mean anything negative about "that" family either--I don't personally know them. The kids are great though.
The people who read this blog are primarily people who I don't even "know" in person, so, also consider the audience. This wasn't an advertisement to the local Native community.
Understood. There is so much I could and would want to say that has gone on behind closed doors. However Im currently still employeed as a puppet. When soon my strings are cut I can and will sing a honest song. If your interested you let me know.
Im not even sure what family you are talking about. What family are you referring to?
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