August 20
Last night was wonderful and peaceful! It was just so quiet out in the tent, aside from the croaking of the frogs and the chirping of the crickets and the rustling of the wind in the leaves and the whirring of the fan – and, lets face it, Thorin snoring after he went to sleep!
But, well, there was one moment that wasn't quite so peaceful (though, in retrospect, quite funny), and that was when we were settling in for the night and I was staring at Thorin, and suddenly a centipede crawled up onto my pillow! All at once, Thorin and I were tossing things about the tent, looking for the thing; and at one point he picked up the sheet and the critter crawled out onto his hand. He hollered and shook it off, and it went flying right at my face! So I, of course, started yelling and flailing, and I jumped out of the tent; and Thorin grabbed the centipede and threw it into some nearby trees. And we had a good laugh about that, but considering the kids didn't come out to see what all the fuss was about, I can only imagine what they thought we were doing!
I was a bit worried about them, of course – as I tend to be. But I really do trust Fili and Kili to take care of Frodo and Gimli, and so I didn't go into the trailer at all until morning. Then we found all of the boys snuggled up together asleep on the table-bed (which will likely never be used as a table again, as we've not even made a move to replace the leg). Hotel Transylvania was in the PS3, the coffee pot was all set up (all we had to do was turn it on), and the air conditioner was still running – which was a good thing, because even that early on, the temperature outside was already in the upper 80s.
So, the day began! We had breakfast, then the clouds rolled in and there was a nice rain. It was light, though, so we all went for a walk down the wood-trail and to the beach at the end, and we saw a double rainbow over the water. It was really a lovely ending to what was, admittedly, a somewhat frustrating trip. Well, we aren't quite at the ending! We're leaving Virginia tomorrow, and we're going to stop off in Dover again (and this time Thorin called ahead to make sure there were open spots!), then we'll be back in Connecticut the next day. Somehow, though, despite all the problems we've run into, I think I am really going to miss this trip when it is over.