The Younger Vining Clan!

Cute Parrot Pinata!

Up On The Rim!!

The kids enjoyed trying a hand at fishing at Woods Canyon Lake & Jon offered to pay $75 to anyone brave enough to jump in the cold lake & get fully covered by the water, starting with

Lori who's trying to save up funds for taking her whole family to Florida in October! Tee

hee! Remember it was cold up there! She was tempted, but not quite commited & Lauren of

course was ready to get in & we said she wasn't allowed right now.

The kids also enjoyed a hike along the rim, roasting marshmellows, making smores, playing

horseshoes, whacking the pinata & investigating the woods & of course cousin time!!!!

June Vining Campout 2010

It was COLD, COLD, COLD!!!! We were pretty close to the very rim of the
mountain. Up on the Rim the wind blew all day & kinda settled a little in the evenings! It's
hard to believe it can be so cold up there when it's so dang hot down here in the
Valley!
It was close to being a bit miserable but we bundled up & kept the fire burning.
The camp host said the week before was very comfortable & a year ago same time of
year it snowed a foot! Never can tell what you're gonna get. Last year we went towards
the end of summer & we got rained on big time!!
The travails of camping...... makes one appreciate the pioneers!!! But I still love to be up in
the mountains & the pines. At nights you could see a million stars, sooo........awesome!! Right now I'm almost wishing for that cold again! This heat is a killer! I'm praying for cloud cover & rainy season!.......sigh .... And nothing beats yummy food cooked outdoors... we had fun inspite of the weather!

We debated whether to go ahead with our plans to have the homemade Ice Cream with

our peach cobbler & in the end did!! It was delisssshhhh!! Even if it seemed crazy to be

eating it when we were freezing!

Closing Doors...

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Vona - Mom

DRAMA & COMEDY AT THE AIRPORT!!!

Well we're home!! I should say Kelly barely made it home!!!! Last Saturday afternoon we were
at the new International Florida Beaches Airport trying to check in & make our flight home ....
well I made it through without incident, but Kelly hands them his driver's license I.D. &
they ask him if he has another picture I.D. he doesn't.......they pull him aside for questioning &
the checker says he has to call for a higher up, she comes & checks his driver's license &
asked what happened to his picture??? Kelly said it's just been worn out from carring it. It
seems the whole middle of his picture is nothing but a blurr!! So she takes him away into
her boss's office & more questioning, after much disccusion & hum-hawing they finally decide
to let him go through!! Then get this, they question his carry-on bag & send it through twice,
then pull Kelly aside, they go all through his bag pulling everything out. They take out two
new sandlewood candles that Kelly bought at Target while in Florida, (he likes the smell of them). At this point he's simultaneously looking for his boarding pass & can't find it!!!! Then
I hear his name being called over the intercalm, he apparently dropped his boarding pass &
a checker has found it & calling out his name. Then he retrieves it & back to his bags, they scan the two candles and they set off the drug alarm.....sooooo...they ask Kelly to step behind some
dividers onto a pad in full view of the public & ask him to spread eagle and proceed to give him a full
pat-down!!!! By this time I'm shaking my head & cracking-up!!! I might as well stand back,
chuckle & enjoy the moment!!! (Here I have to admit that my belt buckle & the guy's behind me
set off the alarm so we had to take off our belts & go through again, so we were both over there together putting our belts back on & grinning at Kelly's perdicament). Then back over at Kelly's bags, they wipe off the candles, put them back in &
start going through his other items, apparently Kelly has collected a whole 25 or so little
hotel size bottles of shampoo & creme rinse & other bottles of cream & stuff & they proceed
to throw them out & give him the whole spill about only allowing a sandwich size bag full
of products. Kelly had to just stand there tongue-in-cheek & take it all!! Then they send his bags back through & finally......through
he says to me " do I look like an Arab??????? He says he was thinking he'd just have to
send me on home & take another day to get a Florida driver's license.
Yesterday I saw him ordering another driver's license over the internet!!!!! End of Story!