KS Rocks 10th Anniversary July 20th, 2013

[ASI H8]

"Come celebrate our first Ten years in style on July 20th. We will have an all day event. Trail rides all day Saturday, night riding till midnight, hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream and drinks cooked and served by your favorite board members. A Live band, free camping and food. All at our regular day fee of $15 per vehicle."
http://www.ksrockspark.com/2013/03/10th-anniversary/

From what I can tell it will cost $15 per day to wheel. This is the standard price. If you pre register ya get a T-Shirt. Camping is free.

I'll have the kids that weekend due to a "girls weekend" at the Ozarks. My work is doing a float trip on Friday I'll be attending. I think I'll come home after the float, load the rig, kids, camping stuff and head to KS Rocks.

 

[mandinga]

I'd go but my 2nd float trip of the summer is that weekend.

 

[ASI H8]

There are two reasons I posted this: 1. They let us hang flyers for our SMORR event this fall. 2. Its wheeling

I think the weather for floating should be great, however for wheeling, ……. The wife is advising against me dragging the kids camping Thursday, floating Friday, back to the house Friday night, wheeling Saturday into the night, camping again, wheeling Sunday and home. I don’t know. Is that a bit much?

 

[mandinga]

How will you be able to drive home after consuming alcohol all day Friday? Yeah that sounds like a busy weekend anyhow. Where are you floating?

 

[ASI H8]

There are two limiting factors:
1. This is a mandatory fun time with work. Ya know the types, “The beating will continue until morale improves.”
2. I’ll have the kids with me.
I’ll have some time to prep the rig, trailer, camping stuff will be with me, and so making the turn from float to wheeling shouldn’t be too bad. I considered taking the rig to the float so I don’t have to double back for it.
I think we are staying at NRO?

 

[ASI H8]

I knew going into this adventure it would be a long, trying adventure

I found the limits of the kids.

Kids and I had a great time camping/floating. Madi made friends and wanted to camp another night with her new found friend. Parker could care less. I wanted some sleep so I struck a deal with Madi. “If we make it back to camp before Parker falls asleep, we will stay another night.” We make it 300 yards and his neck turned to rubber. We headed home.

The next day we linked up with Eric J. and headed to KS Rocks. Got unloaded at around noonish and hit the trails. No carnage. The Samurai did well. Kids did OK on the trails. Madi was complaining about being hot. Parker fell asleep. I was hungry so we headed back to the main gate for dinner around 4:00pm.

Once back at the main gate, Madi was running around, playing in the ice tubs and swinging on the playground. Parker, well, slept. A light sprinkle started to fall. Madi started to itch bug bites received Thursday night, complain (more) about being hot and wanted to leave. Parker, yeah, still asleep. Madi convinced me to load up and head to the house. While loading her into my truck, Parker wakes up, looks around and asks for a sandwich. The rain is picking up as I get the kids loaded and head to the trailer.

I drive onto the trailer, start to run chains/boomers and Parker is eating. By now the rain is coming down in buckets, I’m soaked to the bone, Parker is covered in Mayo/mustard/granola/bread crumb/dust/mud combo and I have the Sami boomed down. I then throw Parker in the truck, finish buttoning up the Samurai and we take off.

Less than one mile on the road, Madi says, “I’m cold.”

I hand her my KS Rocks 10 year anniversary t-shirt (I just got) to wrap up in.

At the five mile mark she says, “Daddy. I don’t feel good.”

“What hurts?”

“My tummy.”

I start grabbing for the puke bag behind the passenger seat.

“I think I’m ….”

I got the puke bag heading to her mouth.

“I’m going to throw uuuUUUUU.”

She missed.