holy cow! we're campery!

HIGHLIGHTS

successes:

1. the tents lasted through the crazy winds

2. no one got bitten by a snake, hit by a deer or attacked by a cow

3. we had hot, yummy food, plus campery cosmos

4. breakfast breakdancing lessons

5. my old-school, man-sweatpants 

6. throwing rocks with the girls

challenges:

1. the shocking coldness, without a campfire (dang burn ban)

2. the park ranger waiting in the shadows to give us citations for all the rules we were breaking

3. the random streak of injuries 

4. the snake encounter

best made-up word:

campery - descriptor for people, places or things related to camping

ie. "I like your campery hat."

fun with names:

blesslie - blessings from leslie

dorian the explorer - if only dorian had an explorer, and not a 4runner

long-johnce - what johnce wears to keep warm 

best convo (for me):

[context: hiking....after coming up alongside antonio moments after I was "blazing my own trail"]

antonio: you know, bk....I sometimes forget that you're a small town girl, and then you say or do something that reminds me that you're from the country....

me: haha...yep

best quote:

[context: driving down a dirt road at night, and coming up unexpectedly on a cow]

jenny: HOLY COW!.......literally....

tent breakdown:

a. the "snuggie" tent - me and the girls in my tent had no shame in cuddling and snuggling for the bitterly cold/windy night; we were also careful with how much cheese was in the tent...because we wanted to avoid being attacked by cows... ;)

b. the "legit-campery" tent - these girls knew how to camp :)

c. the "bacardi-party" tent - these girls had a night cap...or two...

d. the "bromance" tent - the boys will not like this name at all...but it's true...gotta have the brotherly love...especially when it's crazy cold outside...

sidenote: there was an awful lot of talk about snuggies this weekend...I think some of us may need to purchase a snuggie...or two...

best made-up game:

tortilla toss - laura and jenny tossing a hot tortilla like a frisbee (even though we had actual frisbees with us)

best pit-stop:

dairy queen  - regardless of the fact that all the cars left at different times/took different routes home...we all ended up at the same dairy queen within the same time frame....obviously no one could resist the temptation of a hunger-buster or blizzard...