Our Camping Trip

Here are a few details from our trip.

1.  We really didn't want to go jet skiing anyway. (insert sarcasm!)
       First, Matt forgot the keys to the storage shed in Omaha, so he went back home on Saturday morning to get those.
      Second, once we had the jetski there and running, we discovered that it still had 2011 stickers on it.  It wasn't registered for 2012 and technically, we couldn't put it on the water.
       Third, we illegally put it on the water and the third time around the lake, it decided to quit running. The inside had filled up with water and Matt literally pushed it back to shore. He was a little irritated that nobody offered to tow him to shore.  Once we got it to the shore, another camper and his son helped to drain the water and get it onto the jetski trailer.  Matt backed the trailer right onto the beach, but when Matt went to pull the trailer out of the water, the truck just spun in the sand. Therefore, this other camper used his jeep to pull Matt's truck which pulled the jetski trailer out of the water.  On Monday morning, Matt made another trip to Omaha to take the jetski to Leisure Life to get fixed.

2.  The baby bunnies passed away while we were camping.  They were doing great and eating well until we came back into the camper after the jetski fiasco.  I took the lid off our box and Bunny was upside down and Spot was sitting on top of him.  Bunny was dying. :(  He was barely breathing and couldn't even hold his head up anymore.  Courtney was VERY upset! Matt took Bunny and laid him by some trees by another lake to let him die.  He did not let the girls go with him.

During this time, Spot wasn't looking good either and we pretty much assumed this bunny would die overnight and he did.  Matt took this bunny back to the same trees and put him down too.  We had warned Courtney that this might happen because he wasn't looking so good, but she just said that Spot was sad because Bunny died and he needed a friend. She swears that he was crying in his box.  She cried over Spot this morning and again at lunch time, but she hasn't mentioned him since.

We learned a lot from our baby bunnies we had for 5 days. We fed them goat's milk every morning and night and we learned what baby bunnies need to live.  We came back to the camper one night and they had their eyes open- how exciting that was! We watched them jump up so high that they lifted the lid of their shoebox and we also saw them peeking through the hole in the side of the box.  They were super-duper cute and it was amazing to look at their little claws and little teeth. The morning that Bunny died, he was being a character.  Matt was feeding him and he would open his mouth for the milk (we were using a syringe).  He stuck his head out as if he wanted more milk. He was hungry! We also knew that baby bunnies can die if you overfeed them, but we didn't think this was the case.  We think maybe the milk had gone bad, but we also know that babies need their mamas and these bunnies did not have their mama. She wasn't so smart when she built her nest in our backyard!  We know all along that they probably would not make it, so we were halfway expecting it. It was a good lesson for everybody.