camping
What a weekend!
It started out wonderfully. We found Yellowstone Lake Park and set up our tent, cooked a little meal over the fire and managed to consume what wasn't charred. We spent the evening around the fire, drinking and having a good time.
Saturday morning we got up and began our adventure. We spent the day hiking and stopped in a number of beautiful little spots. I didn't bring sneakers but my flip-flops turned out to be just the thing since I could kick them off and go running through the woods, up hills, and in trees more easily bare-foot.
Kanjana, Joey, and Geoff were a great group to go with. We all took turns deciding when to leave the various places that we stopped, and everyone was in good spirits the whole time. We watched a spider catch a bee and eat it, we found an odd aquatic-looking plant up in the hills, we ran through prairie grass that came up to our chests, we laid in the grass under a big pine tree, we romped in a playground and swung on monkey bars, we tried to climb a tree that was just one single limb, I showed them which berries and clovers they could eat, we saw some amazing birds, we went swimming, and then we went back to the camp-site where we built a fire, had dinner and relaxed to Geoff's guitar.
About ten minutes after the neighbor's baby shut up and the dog stopped barking a park ranger showed up shining a flashlight in our faces. He immediately noticed the beer and asked us how old we were. We're all 20, except for Kanjana who is 19. They asked for our IDs and told us we were being evicted. As we had to scatter to find our IDs we were able to get rid of all traces of other unnoticed illegal activity, and then we spent the next two or three hours waiting for the bastards to bring our credit cards back. The fine was $249.00 each. Quiet hours started at 10:00, and the rangers showed up some time around 10:30. We had no idea we were being too loud since we could here noise coming from at least 3 camp-sites in our vicinity. The remainder of the night was spent fuming about the horrible United States policies and unjust punishment we were receiving. Because we had been drinking they let us stay the night, but we had to be out of there by 10am. Of course it had to pour that night. We got rather drenched and were happy to leave this morning.
It started out wonderfully. We found Yellowstone Lake Park and set up our tent, cooked a little meal over the fire and managed to consume what wasn't charred. We spent the evening around the fire, drinking and having a good time.
Saturday morning we got up and began our adventure. We spent the day hiking and stopped in a number of beautiful little spots. I didn't bring sneakers but my flip-flops turned out to be just the thing since I could kick them off and go running through the woods, up hills, and in trees more easily bare-foot.
Kanjana, Joey, and Geoff were a great group to go with. We all took turns deciding when to leave the various places that we stopped, and everyone was in good spirits the whole time. We watched a spider catch a bee and eat it, we found an odd aquatic-looking plant up in the hills, we ran through prairie grass that came up to our chests, we laid in the grass under a big pine tree, we romped in a playground and swung on monkey bars, we tried to climb a tree that was just one single limb, I showed them which berries and clovers they could eat, we saw some amazing birds, we went swimming, and then we went back to the camp-site where we built a fire, had dinner and relaxed to Geoff's guitar.
About ten minutes after the neighbor's baby shut up and the dog stopped barking a park ranger showed up shining a flashlight in our faces. He immediately noticed the beer and asked us how old we were. We're all 20, except for Kanjana who is 19. They asked for our IDs and told us we were being evicted. As we had to scatter to find our IDs we were able to get rid of all traces of other unnoticed illegal activity, and then we spent the next two or three hours waiting for the bastards to bring our credit cards back. The fine was $249.00 each. Quiet hours started at 10:00, and the rangers showed up some time around 10:30. We had no idea we were being too loud since we could here noise coming from at least 3 camp-sites in our vicinity. The remainder of the night was spent fuming about the horrible United States policies and unjust punishment we were receiving. Because we had been drinking they let us stay the night, but we had to be out of there by 10am. Of course it had to pour that night. We got rather drenched and were happy to leave this morning.