Port Orchard

We spent the next few days or so with Aunt Cathy and Uncle John! Cam gave Aunt Cathy a lesson on playing his Nintendo DS, and Uncle John gave Cam a lesson in wrestling. :) Cam was actually wearing his skatepads and helmet for a while. That is some serious wrassling! Friday we headed down to the waterfront in Tacoma. Cam was able to skate along, and we had a fantastic lunch at Duke's Chowder House.

This was just the beginning of our day! We headed over to Maple Valley to see Becky and Slider and went from there to meet up with Jim at work. Unfortunately, Jim couldn't make it to dinner with us because of work, but we were able to meet up with afterwards. He gave Cameron the grand tour of the police car! Honestly? I think Cameron was a bit nervous and was very adamant about NOT wanting to see a holding cell and to make sure there weren't any "bad guys" at the substation when we were there. :)

That was enough excitement for me, but certainly not the end of our day! Jim mentioned a skate park close by and asked if Cameron had his gear with him. Of course he did, and it was in the trunk. So we made a stop at Crossroads Park before taking Becky back to her house. We stopped at Starbucks before heading over, and Jim met up with us for a bit. Cam had a pretty confident demeanor about him, perhaps because he was walking into the skate park with a policeman. :) Jim headed off to tell some people to turn their music down and another guy on a BMX bike that he wasn't supposed to be there, but it was okay if no one else complained about it. Just doin' his job. There were a few other kids Cam's age, but not skating inside the bowl. The other kids were about 16? 17? and up. After watching for a while, we got the hang of the park etiquette and Cam was all over it. The skaters there were very polite to him and even looked out for him, telling him to go ahead and giving him the head nod of approval on his tricks. :) The other kids watching were calling him a "beast" because of the trick he was trying - a handplant - and that they wouldn't try that even with all the pads on. :) It was a huge boost for his ego to say the least. We left there, to drop Aunt Cathy off with Jennifer, and they were going to meet us back at their house. Unfortunately, this was the onset of a stomach bug Cam picked up. Got to Target and he puked. Dropped Becky off at home and he puked. Headed home and puked in the car, because we were on the highway and couldn't find a spot to pull over. :( My poor baby! We finally pull over and get things cleaned up, and Cameron is standing off to the side of the road crying "I hate this trip!" It was sad. Finally get home, give him a bath and put him to bed. A corona never tasted so good. Spent the next day hanging out with Aunt Cathy and debating on whether Cam was good enough to ride down to Seaside. He wasn't, so around 6:00 we hit the coronas, again and had a GREAT day catching up with Aunt Cathy! All in all - even with the little stomach bug - our visit in Port Orchard was great. The only thing that would have made it a bit better would have been if Uncle John had some cream of tartar ... :)