God, if You didn’t want us to go camping, all you had to do was say so.
We were supposed to leave Friday morning and camp around north Ca and Nv. Thursday night Jacky began vomiting around 11:30. She continued every half hour to hour all night long (mostly dry heaves). We decided to wait until Saturday to leave. By then she was still not 100% but feeling much better.
We got a little more than half way to our first camp site when Jon and Joe lost it. By lunch, only Jessie and I felt good enough to eat a whole pbj. We were closer to the camp than to home so we went on and set up camp.
By bedtime, all the children but Jim had lost it and he and Andy were curled up on blankets on the ground trying not to move anymore than necessary. It was a long night to say the least.
We went to the lava tubes the next morning (less than an hour drive) while trying to decide what to do. Andy handed Jennifer a flashlight and she took off down the tubes! Totally fearless! (They are just long tubes like a toilet paper roll and we kept up with her so she was perfectly safe.)
I prayed the whole time for God to tell Andy what to do. By the time we got back to camp, he knew we needed to go home. We packed up and did the long drive home.
About 5:00 the next morning it hit me. I ended up curled up on the living room floor. It was five hours before I could move enough to get out of the walk way! We just kicked back Monday and Tuesday.
By Wednesday everyone was feeling better so we went to Topaz and went swimming. Thursday we went to the Golden Gate Bridge in ‘Frisco. The kids love the fort and found the big city fascinating.
Friday we went back roading to Bodie and back. Quite a nice time.
We can only figure God was protecting us by making us go home. We may have been in the wrong place in an intersection, or someone might have fallen and got hurt, or who knows if we had gone on with our plans. We are thankful for His protection.
But God, couldn’t You have just told us to not camp and saved all that packing and vomiting?
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