Ibapah

We made our annual trek out to Ibapah for the Christiansen reunion. For those of the family who didn't go, you missed a great time. The reunion is on an old family ranch, I don't know who still owns the place but they take good care of it. Those directly related to whomever owns the house stay up at the house while the rest of the family stays down in the orchard. The first year I went in 2004, they had hit and miss grass in the orchard and it maybe went to the outhouse. This year the grass in the orchard area is great and it covers pretty much the whole fenced in area. Even with the nice grass the kids still find the dirt.

Little b was so excited to go camping that she not only stayed awake for the 3 hour drive she talked the whole way out. Since Cody slept the whole way out when it came time for bed he wasn't even close to ready. He talked for about an hour, "night mom, night dad, night bryten, night jonas" "moma sleep there, daddy sleep there" It was hard not to laugh but I so was tired I wanted to beat him.



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On Saturday they have games for everyone. Lots of fun games for the kids and they passed out tons of candy. Cody thought it was the greatest thing ever. They had games for the adults to play with the kids, they made two huge circles holding hands and had to pass a hula hoop around without letting go. The yearly egg toss, tug-a-war, three legged race and a potato sack race.



They have all sorts of fun "toys" there. They have three or four tree swings, one of the swings, you jump onto the swing about twenty feet up in the tree. They also have a zip line that is about 200 feet long, ending up in the pond. Just about everyone has a dirt bike or an atv. So there is plenty to do yet we spend most of our time chasing the kids.






It wouldn't be the reunion without the candy in the hay game. They let the little ones go first, gradually working up to the oldest teenagers. B and cody made out like bandits, b even picked up some coin this year.




It was Jonas's first camping trip and he did great. I think he enjoys being outside and does better being outside. Next year Randy's family is in charge of all the games and lunch. So for all of those related to Randy reading this, plan on going out next year to help with the food and fun!