We had originally planned to stay two nights in Independence, but our sleep there was terrible, it was forcasted to keep raining, and we had seen all the church sites we came to see. So we packed up and left.
But not before a few rides at Worlds of Fun.
So Kansas is beautiful. But I can't say it's very interesting.
It looks just like this for hours on end. Reminded me of Nebraska but with fewer stops and cities. We had no idea what our camp ground would be like, but we expected a few trees in the middle of a field.
Boy were we wrong. Lake Scott is down in the bottom of a large ravine. You would completely miss it unless you came right up on it. It was like a prairie oasis. Simply stunning and surprising.
We set up camp. Luke cranked up the tent top and noticed it wasn't cranking right. He called Mike over who finished cranking it all the way up. But then we had problems with the door. The roof was too high. I went over to check the tention in the wire that gauges when to stop cranking the roof up. It was really tight.
Mike came over to see. He tried to crank it down, but as he turned nothing happened in either direction. This was bad. Our tent was stuck. You can't drive a tent trailer on the interstate with the tent up. And we were in the middle of no where. I walked back to some nice people I had noticed as I payed our fees. I borrowed a screw driver for Mike to use. He had wrenches, but no screw driver.
The kids were anxious to play and making Mike nuts. So I walked them to the playground and swim area. We stopped for a minute and I told them what was going on with the trailer. They were sincerely concerned. Luke offered a prayer.
We finished our walk over and the kids played. They had so much fun.
It's too bad they don't put more of these in at parks.
After the playground, then a swim.
As I watched them play I couldn't help but worry about the trailer. If Mike couldn't fix it, we were seriouslying stuck for a while.
I envied the kids ability to understand the situation, but they knew there was nothing they could do about it. They didn't worry, they played and completely trusted that things would work out and they would be taken care of. And in the mean time they enjoyed their time together, making the most of every minute.
I learned from them.
When we returned Mike was finishing up. With the screw driver he was able to remove a panel and see that our air pump had fallen back into the gears. He was able to cut all the wires loose and pull them out.
I helped him test the roof going up and down. It worked! Whew! We were so relieved and so grateful.
We slept so well. It was cool enough we slept with no a/c and the windows unzipped. It was delightful. We woke up to geese honking.
Mike went for a run and saw buffalo, wild turkeys, badger, tons of deer, raccoon and a crane. It took him a while to get back. The lake was bigger than he thought. He got in quite a run.
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