Weather.com and bright ideas!
Weather.com is a liar. And my husband has the worst ideas ever.
Let us do a flashback of some of Jason's bright ideas just THIS year alone:
1.) "Park here. Everyone else is and that sign makes no sense anyways!" *A ticket later...*
2.) "We can do the moving by ourselves. Let's cancel the moving company!" *Refer to former blog for that disaster!*
3.) "Let's go camping. It shouldn't be too cold!"...
And this is where weather.com comes in. I had checked the website religiously for the past couple of weeks. Trying to decide what to pack, how to pack, see how much I would be complaining, etc. And every time we checked it said that it would be "sunny, upper 60s, camping heaven". So although The Grim woke me up and was/is making it's comeback the morning we were to leave, I desperately wanted to see two of my favorite people in the world. We packed up the car (on a fairly nasty but WARM NY day) and we headed down the road to meet Josh and Michele. We were doing great. It was only supposed to be a 8 hour drive. We had even found some shortcuts to get out of the city! Found another few interstates that made the trip even shorter. We were dancing along to the radio...until we were stopped abruptly by traffic...because people CANNOT MERGE! This traffic jam (which should have never existed) put us back an ENTIRE HOUR! We were pretty pissed, but forged ahead trying to make the most of the setback. We pull off to gas up and change drivers, step out of the car and find that weather.com has frostbitten us in the behind...LITERALLY. The wind alone took our breath away and as we reached for our thicker coats...we realized that we hadn't even bothered to bring coats, or gloves, or hats...or our brains. We quickly pumped the gas and pumped up the heat and began to lie to each other, saying that it won't be that cold camping...further south!
A few hours later (making the drive more like 9 1/2 hours) we arrived at Claytor Lake and jumped out to give hugs and set up our campsite. And yes...the lies didn't help. It is still cold as balls! We pull out our rechargeable battery operated lantern to find that our luck is continuing...the lantern isn't working, pull out our other lantern which doesn't have any kerosene. Great start. We realize that we can't feel our body parts and begin to layer up with every single piece of clothing we brought. The fire is barely ablaze because of the rain the night before, but we are optimisitc about the next day so we decide to hit the hay.
Jason and I wake around 4 a.m. to the cold..the cold of the freezing ground because our air mattress has somehow gotten a slow leak and deflated. We are too cold to get up, so we snuggle and force ourselves back to sleep for daybreak.
Daybreak came and with that came the pain! My knee which already is like an old lady's decided to act awful, but I thought, "hey, I dance and act like this...who says I can't hike through the pain". After a great breakfast and finding a legal trail to the Cascades where we wouldn't get shot, we make our way to the overlook and have a photo session. The hike back down was a little better on the knees, but there is no trip without the Debbie Downer of the group...and that person was me.
After the hike, we hit Wal-Mart for a new air mattress, hats, thermal wear and gloves and then headed back to the campsite. The fire was a huge success (oh yeah Michele) and Josh decided to use his amazing skills outside of the bedroom and fondue some chocolate and made some marshmallow/graham cracker/smore like dessert. It was really tasty and as me and Michele fell asleep smiling (because that is what happens to women if they fall asleep eating chocolate) by the fire the boys dished the dirt about...video games and comic books! ;) Our new air mattress was a huge success and we fell asleep snuggled up.
The ONLY saving grace of the entire weekend is that I LOVE hanging out with those two wonderful human beings. And I wouldn't want to make fun of Jason and his bright ideas with anyone else! ;) I actually didn't want to pack up the site...mainly considering it was a little warmer and I was slightly in better spirits, but there are those things we have...oh yeah jobs! ;)
The trip back sucked (more traffic, even more stupid people, rain...and just to cap off the entire weekend, we freaking got rear-ended)! The weekend did however add another year to my never being wrong credit!
In other news, I found out my show is actually an Off-Off Broadway show and we are in the NY Times!!!!
Until next time, Peace and Hair Grease!
Let us do a flashback of some of Jason's bright ideas just THIS year alone:
1.) "Park here. Everyone else is and that sign makes no sense anyways!" *A ticket later...*
2.) "We can do the moving by ourselves. Let's cancel the moving company!" *Refer to former blog for that disaster!*
3.) "Let's go camping. It shouldn't be too cold!"...
And this is where weather.com comes in. I had checked the website religiously for the past couple of weeks. Trying to decide what to pack, how to pack, see how much I would be complaining, etc. And every time we checked it said that it would be "sunny, upper 60s, camping heaven". So although The Grim woke me up and was/is making it's comeback the morning we were to leave, I desperately wanted to see two of my favorite people in the world. We packed up the car (on a fairly nasty but WARM NY day) and we headed down the road to meet Josh and Michele. We were doing great. It was only supposed to be a 8 hour drive. We had even found some shortcuts to get out of the city! Found another few interstates that made the trip even shorter. We were dancing along to the radio...until we were stopped abruptly by traffic...because people CANNOT MERGE! This traffic jam (which should have never existed) put us back an ENTIRE HOUR! We were pretty pissed, but forged ahead trying to make the most of the setback. We pull off to gas up and change drivers, step out of the car and find that weather.com has frostbitten us in the behind...LITERALLY. The wind alone took our breath away and as we reached for our thicker coats...we realized that we hadn't even bothered to bring coats, or gloves, or hats...or our brains. We quickly pumped the gas and pumped up the heat and began to lie to each other, saying that it won't be that cold camping...further south!
A few hours later (making the drive more like 9 1/2 hours) we arrived at Claytor Lake and jumped out to give hugs and set up our campsite. And yes...the lies didn't help. It is still cold as balls! We pull out our rechargeable battery operated lantern to find that our luck is continuing...the lantern isn't working, pull out our other lantern which doesn't have any kerosene. Great start. We realize that we can't feel our body parts and begin to layer up with every single piece of clothing we brought. The fire is barely ablaze because of the rain the night before, but we are optimisitc about the next day so we decide to hit the hay.
Jason and I wake around 4 a.m. to the cold..the cold of the freezing ground because our air mattress has somehow gotten a slow leak and deflated. We are too cold to get up, so we snuggle and force ourselves back to sleep for daybreak.
Daybreak came and with that came the pain! My knee which already is like an old lady's decided to act awful, but I thought, "hey, I dance and act like this...who says I can't hike through the pain". After a great breakfast and finding a legal trail to the Cascades where we wouldn't get shot, we make our way to the overlook and have a photo session. The hike back down was a little better on the knees, but there is no trip without the Debbie Downer of the group...and that person was me.
After the hike, we hit Wal-Mart for a new air mattress, hats, thermal wear and gloves and then headed back to the campsite. The fire was a huge success (oh yeah Michele) and Josh decided to use his amazing skills outside of the bedroom and fondue some chocolate and made some marshmallow/graham cracker/smore like dessert. It was really tasty and as me and Michele fell asleep smiling (because that is what happens to women if they fall asleep eating chocolate) by the fire the boys dished the dirt about...video games and comic books! ;) Our new air mattress was a huge success and we fell asleep snuggled up.
The ONLY saving grace of the entire weekend is that I LOVE hanging out with those two wonderful human beings. And I wouldn't want to make fun of Jason and his bright ideas with anyone else! ;) I actually didn't want to pack up the site...mainly considering it was a little warmer and I was slightly in better spirits, but there are those things we have...oh yeah jobs! ;)
The trip back sucked (more traffic, even more stupid people, rain...and just to cap off the entire weekend, we freaking got rear-ended)! The weekend did however add another year to my never being wrong credit!
In other news, I found out my show is actually an Off-Off Broadway show and we are in the NY Times!!!!
Until next time, Peace and Hair Grease!