Full House and First Emergency

The rest of the crowd arrived as expected yesterday. The day was bright and dry until about 2 PM when a monsoon storm passed through. We had wind, hail and heavy rain for 20 minutes. It rained .20" in that time frame. Then the sun came out again and the rest of the day was fine.

The campground is loaded with kids and I took a couple shots of the playground area to show the crowd:



Shortly after these pictures were taken we heard on our radio that "911 is on its way". It turns out that a little girl was trying to put her dog on the roof of the playhouse in the above picture and fell backward and landed hard on the ground. The fire and rescue trucks arrived from the Blue Ridge Fire District, about 15 miles up the road, and prepared her for transport to Payson. We were told that she broke her arm at the elbow and it was a nasty break. With all the kids playing in the area this weekend it's amazing there hasn't been more accidents. Add to that the many kids that are still riding the ATV's around, without helmets, and there is another recipe for disaster.

We heard lots of music and partying well into the evening. There was a huge party in the tenting area that is right next to our Camp Host site so it sounded worse than it really was. Anyhow, we have one day to go with the festive crowd and we hope there are no more incidents.

Bob has had a software problem of some kind since yesterday as the communications has been super slow using the data card. It is about as slow as dial up service - or worse. He finally got the post completed though and will try to solve the problem before tomorrow...