Porter looks forward to this all year.
Well, not as much as he looks forward to the church Fathers & Sons campout. But almost. (Unfortunately, you won't see a post about that weekend last month, because I have no pictures -- cuz i wasn't there. Porter & Dave were too busy having fun to take pix of themselves having fun. And I understand.)
So, anyway, Mr. Gaebel is the principal of our elementary school. He's a really great guy and the kids love him. Every spring for the past few years, de Portola turns into something of a tent city on a Friday night. There's a live band playing 80's music, powerful telescopes for star gazing, a movie projected onto the handball court, and a pancake breakfast the next morning.
Here's Porter & Dave headed down the street to the school with all the essentials for the overnight.
And setting up the smallest tent in the bunch -- Dave's 1 1/2 man backpacking tent! 
And here's how the tent city looked at 6am when I returned (i couldn't just leave the girls at home alone, could I?!?) to help serve the pancake breakfast to the tent sleepers!
Thought you'd enjoy this shot of my neighbor, Laura, commandeerig the power tools to mix up the first (of several) batch(es) of pancake batter. :-) And, that's Mr. Gaebel in the background.
3 comments:
Love the pictures! I'm not showing them to Addy though - she'd be ticked that we didn't go . . . Maybe next time:)
Pete and I both thought that looks great! His one comment though was "I don't think we'd want to do that in the middle of Santa Ana"
I totally agree...you could NOT leave those girls overnight. :) What a FUN idea. And the pancake power tools look awesome. I'm surprised Porter & Dave weren't in charge of that.
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