Even though our summer camp jobs were over, the outdoor spirits of me and Roxanne didn't leave us and good thing it didn't because as we had to go to Flathead Lake, Montana for our well-earned vacation. This became Roxanne's vacation as much as mine not because she had nowhere else to go, but because I treated her to it. I told her this was my gift to her for doing so well in her first college year. She had never went on a camping trip before in her life because her dad wouldn't let her go on one let alone take her on one, so she was feeling nervous about it at first, but she was glad that my family and I were going on this vacation with her and that she would be with faces that were familiar to her and she told me that it was still better for her to go with me than for her to just be on her own, whether it was at my house or a vacation by herself.

I drove myself and Roxanne to Flathead Lake and we arrived at the camping lodge resort we stayed at. It was bigger and more beautiful than we ever imagined it would be. It looked like a giant five-star hotel that was rustic and wooden and we liked the massive room we shared with each other. And it had a large gym, a vast swimming pool and a huge hot tub and everything a hotel needed to provide for their guests. And we loved the food they served us.

Roxanne and I were delighted to see my dad, Sylvia and Hannah when they arrived. Not only that, but we were both surprised and delighted when our friends from Spoonerville High School arrived. Not even I was expecting to see them, but I along with Roxanne and my family were delighted to see them. They were very pleased to see us too. As I greeted them, I sincerely apologized to them for not going to see them or talking to them on the phone or sending them emails or contacting them in any other way at all during the depression Mona caused me. They all understood and forgave me and they were so glad that I managed to move on from that depression (and it was all thanks to Roxanne being back in my life). And they were very pleased to see Roxanne for the first time in nine years and she was very pleased to see them as well, especially with seeing Stacey, Bobby and PJ. She was unsure about seeing Lisa again at first because back in high school they weren't really friends, they didn't see eye to eye back in high school and she used to be a complete high school diva, but the more she spent time with her, the more Roxanne saw that Lisa was a different lady than when she was in high school (by the time Roxanne had to move to Texas and I became her new boyfriend, that is), which Lisa kept saying that it was thanks to me. She kept saying, by becoming her boyfriend after Chad cheated on her, I helped her change into a better and happier person and I was a better boyfriend than Chad ever was to her. And Roxanne liked this new Lisa. And I'll never forget when she met PJ's partner Lucy and Stacey's partner Lauren and my godchildren for the first time ever.

On the first night of the vacation, we all sat outside the resort's large campfire and we had delicious barbecue food that was cooked by PJ's barbecue outside his RV, which was twice bigger and twice more awesome than the one he and his dad used in Summer 1995. The barbecue food was so delicious that it was being served from his amazing restaurants.

Then we all talked about what was going in our lives. I told everyone what I had been doing, including my work at Spoonerville College and having Roxanne back in my life after eight years.

Then Roxanne told everyone about her life in San Siesta and how much she disliked having to live there for eight miserable years and how much she hated that she had to start high school all over again and how unpopular she was there, not that she ever cared about school popularity or missed the popularity she had at Spoonerville High School. Then she told everyone how her life got better after she met me in Mouseton Forest and Lake last summer while I was on vacation with my family and how I helped her get into Spoonerville College and how she just finished her first year and all she learned and all the new friends she made and all the activities she did like her cheerleading and acting in the college's drama production of Spamalot and how she and I had just finished being camp counselors for Spoonerville Summer Camp for most of this summer.

Then my family told me how well they were doing and they still enjoyed their jobs in Big Sky and how much Hannah was enjoying and doing well at day care.

Then my friends told me how well they were doing. PJ had been getting more Michelin stars and other chef awards and had opened his fifth restaurant and started writing cookery books and even had his own cookery TV show called PJ's Easy Cooking Recipes, who won a lot of TV awards including a News and Documentary Emmy Award.

Lucy was still writing more poem books and still being a bestseller and winning lots of awards for them.

Lisa was still the editor-in-chief of Gleaming and it was more popular than ever and it was getting more celebrities on appear on the covers, including Powerline and his ex-wife Deadly Beautiful among them.

Bobby was still the CEO of Sunny Records and it was doing very well, hiring lots of new talents, making lots of money and winning lots of awards, including Grammies.

Stacey was doing very well being the successful criminal psychologist she was, helping the Cambridge Police Criminal Psychology Team get criminals to confess their crimes, writing both non-fiction and fictional books about psychology and all of them being bestsellers and going on TV shows, including with Webra Walters among them.

Lauren was doing very well with her theater, releasing many popular shows including Rent and Miss Saigon among them.

Then our friends told us that the proudest achievements ever were their own children, how much great kids they were, how much they loved them and how proud they were of them.