I'm not sure whose brilliant idea it was to have a spontaneous campout in a thunderstorm... Tyler? Sherri? Anyway, we got an impressive light show, from a vantage low enough in a canyon that we weren't really worried about getting hit, and it didn't really pour until we were in the tents. The weather was a lot clearer in the morning, though it still threatened a little. Not all the kids were sure they liked the rain, but they got really wired on candy, sang "singing in the rain" really loud, stayed up late talking, spent the morning building bridges in the (dry) bed of Trabuco Creek, had a pow-wow in "the hut" (a sheltered place under a tree), got taken out to the nearest Starbucks on the way out (probably just over the nearest hill as the crow flies, a circuitous mile driving), and then spent the afternoon hanging out together watching a movie. Not a bad way to spend the last day of fall break...

Anyway, the photos.

More and larger in the gallery as usual.