After the deputies left, I jokingly said to Toby that we should just head out to Shaver right then.  She gave me one of her withering, sleep deprived looks which told me that I wasn’t being as funny as I thought.

We got back into bed, but due to the adrenaline dump, I lay awake for about an hour.  Even then my sleep was fitful.  I heard Toby get up and then she was talking to me.  “Alright, let’s go.”  It was 3:30a.  That sounded good to me.

We loaded up the rest of the stuff and the kids into the van and were on the road before 5a.  The kids saw their first sunrise during our otherwise uneventful 6 hour drive.  Toby elected to stay at the cabin and take a nap, while Max and Lucy and I went to the beach camp to meet the others.

We had a great time with Yaya, Poppa, Katie, Rich, Abbie, Alex, Jan, Jeff, Emily and Nate.  Max and Lucy and most of the other kids went tubing behind the boat.  Lucy is quite the fearless one (in some things) and she quickly used the hand motion for Uncle Jeff to speed up.

All the cousins had a great time playing on shore and in the water with each other.