Jun 30, 2003 11:14
I don't work today which is cool b/c I was soooo tired yesterday and needed to sleep in today...why was I tired? b/c I went camping this weekend!!:)
Chris and I went up to Omer Friday morning and met up w/Tony, Justin, and all those kids that were there since Wed; & more people came later in the afternoon. It was a fun weekend of drifting, telling stories, dying laughing, playing 'I Never...' around the campfire, drinking heavily, and freezing our asses off (saturday).
I had an orange terrycloth cap'ns chair and it was dubbed the "optional rally furby fun chair" b/c Lauren and I are furbies b/c we never stop talking.heh.
Anton got bit by a spider twice! on the cheek bone and lip, it was swollen, and he had a fever when we were drifing. Justin was sooo accident prone! he seriously got hurt everyday he was there.
ok so the point of going there is to go drifting. You sit/lay on a drifter(this raft-like thing), you get an oar, and you drift down the Rifle River. Well Saturday the weather was SO shitty! overcast, mid60's, and then downpour! The air was colder than the water. I, along w/everyone else, was freezing! When we stopped for lunch on this little "island" we made a fire. I left before everyone w/like 5 other people b/c there was still like 3/4 of the trip left and we were getting hypothermia. We got back to the campground just before it started pouring/thundering/lightning. -by the way, a mile on a river takes forever!- The people that left after us had to get out of the river when the storm came and hid out under another campground's pavilion, and some were in some guy's trailer. A tornado touched down on the next town over! After it slowed down the rest of the group were back within an hour, but it continued raining off and on throughout the afternoon/night. People didn't even feel like really drinking on the river b/c it was damn cold!wow... but that changed as soon as everyone was warm and dry.
Sunday we had to be out by noon. The weather was beautiful! that's about right, when we leave its nice. Took down camp, returned all the bottles-more than 600 drank by 23 people(not incl. the 7 5th's of liqour); and then ate lunch w/ the bottle return money at Mickey D's, its tradition.
Besides the actual drifting & my feet being icecubes(seriously) afterward, it was a fun weekend-->I <3 camping~bbq's, campfires, and no matter what time you go to bed you'll wake up by 9am:) I'd go next year, depending on the weather...
annnnnd I got to spend the whole weekend w/Chris!!:)<3
::xoxox::