Luka slammed the back door of their SUV shut and looked at Abby. She actually looked sad. He slipped an arm across her shoulders and they surveyed the empty campsite. Susie and Heather were cruising the ground with Lauren and Cosmo, picking up stray papers and scuffing the tent stake holes with their feet. Susan and Chuck were busy packing their own vehicle and straightening their own campsite.

"Very weird, isn't it?" Abby sighed. "A couple of hours ago this was a very busy little outdoor home. Now it's all gone." Luka chuckled and hugged her.

"It's actually in the back of our car waiting to be used again." Abby wrapped her arms around his waist and held him close for a long moment.

"Thank you, Luka," she said. "This has been a wonderful vacation." He grinned and kissed the top of her head.

"So you like camping?" he asked. Abby frowned thoughtfully.

"I liked this camping trip," she said. "I would go again, I think."

All done," Susie said brightly as she dumped a handful of trash into the bag waiting to be taken to the park dumpster. She held the plastic bag open as Cosmo dropped some papers into it. Heather held Lauren so she could put the paper from her hand in it as well. Luka grinned and took his daughter and tossed her high into the air. Lauren squealed and laughed as he caught her and kissed her cheeks. He settled her in the crook of his arm and took Abby's hand as approached Susan and Chuck's car.

"We're going to the bathroom again," Susie said as she took Cosmo's hand.

"Thank you….." Susan called after them. She turned to Abby and sighed. She blinked a bit as they hugged one another.

"Now remember," she said as she pulled away. "Next summer we do the resort thing in the Catskills? Dining room service? Patrick Swayze? " She looked up at Luka.

"A real bed in every room," she added. Luka chuckled.

"It wasn't that bad," he said. Susan frowned.

"Says you," she said. "Your blow up mattress saw a little more…..action….. than ours did." Luka shook his head and grinned. Susan looked at the little girl in his arms and smiled at the pony tails that held her hair away from her face. She sighed sadly as she lifted Lauren from his arm.

"The next time we do something like this……" she said as she kissed the soft little cheeks and hugged her close, "…you'll be a walking and talking little marvel." She handed Lauren to Abby reluctantly.

"Are we stopping somewhere for lunch?" she asked.

"That's the plan," Luka said as he took Lauren from Abby and carried her toward the open door of the car. He fastened her into her car seat.

"So you're not……" Abby chuckled.

"We decided that we'd rather spend the night with my Dad than attempt another Lake Michigan crossing on the way home," Susan shuddered as she wrapped an arm around Chuck. "We're following you back to Chicago." They all looked up as they heard the rumble of thunder. Abby held out her hand as huge raindrops began to fall.

"I think the gods were with us on this!" Chuck grinned as he lifted a hand to wave to Luka. Susan shrieked as she hurried around their car and Abby raced for her own open door. She hurried to roll the window up and fasten her seat belt. She waved to Susan as Luka pulled their car out of the camp site and slowly headed toward the park entrance. Luka shook his head as he turned on the windshield wipers and looked over at her. He snickered as he saw the aghast look on her face as she saw campers running for cover or trying to pull plastic over their tents and picnic tables.

"Uh…Luka," she said finally. "What I said about wanting to do this again?" He laughed and pulled their car out of the campground and on to the highway toward home.