Camping day 3
Happy Friday the 13th!!! We started the day with HAIL!!!!!!! Actual honest to God HAIL!!!!!!! We've now camped in every weather, except for snow. Or tornadoes. No plans to do either.
After we got over the shock of the hail, we got up and got around to do stuff. Called Billy and made plans to head to Strong around 1, pending her surgery being moved up. We bummed around and made plans to leave around 12:30. Unfortunately Phil had to leave unexpectedly to go back to Atlanta, so we wanted to wait until Dee came back to go to the hospital. In the meantime, Billy called back around noon to say that Jeanne's surgery had moved up, and could we postpone the visit until Saturday. No problem, and he kept me up to date via cell phone and IM's.
Since we were heading into Rochester anyway, we decided to go ahead and make a run into civilization. Molly managed to make it out of camp without changing out of her PJ's (a t-shirt and boxer shorts), and WITHOUT underwear ... sigh ... So we stopped at the mall to get her real clothes to wear. Found a cute pair of capri-style sweats that she promptly spilled sweet and sour sauce all over. There was a plaza across from the mall that had a Goodwill store so of course we had to stop. I found a pair of HEAVY men's sweats for $5 that fit me perfectly. Now I could be warm!!!! There was also a cool astronomy book that included a red flashlight and planisphere for $2. Needless to say, I was VERY happy at that point. There was also a fantastic Chinese buffet in the same plaza that pretty much blows our local ones out of the water.
Came back to camp to meet up with the rest of the camping crew. Got everyone set up, and started cooking and drinking. And drinking some more. Dee and I got pretty happy on Grey Goose vanilla rum and coke, then I discovered Buttershots. Those things are amazing. Now I haven't had a drop of alcohol for about 3 years (didn't want to do ANYTHING that would mess up my chances of getting pregnant, and then during the pregnancy). So my tolerance wasn't nearly what it used to be. But I got a nice buzz and VERY silly. The camping quote of the year was when Mark made a comment about his drunk wife and I jumped up on unsteady legs and yelled "I'm not drunk ... I'm just HAPPY!!!!" Followed by 5 minutes of uncontrolled giggling. And quoting Captain Jack Sparrow ("the rum is gone ... why is the rum all gone?") Uh huh .... not drunk. Not even close ;)
And such ended day 3 ... I was sober by the time I went to bed though.
After we got over the shock of the hail, we got up and got around to do stuff. Called Billy and made plans to head to Strong around 1, pending her surgery being moved up. We bummed around and made plans to leave around 12:30. Unfortunately Phil had to leave unexpectedly to go back to Atlanta, so we wanted to wait until Dee came back to go to the hospital. In the meantime, Billy called back around noon to say that Jeanne's surgery had moved up, and could we postpone the visit until Saturday. No problem, and he kept me up to date via cell phone and IM's.
Since we were heading into Rochester anyway, we decided to go ahead and make a run into civilization. Molly managed to make it out of camp without changing out of her PJ's (a t-shirt and boxer shorts), and WITHOUT underwear ... sigh ... So we stopped at the mall to get her real clothes to wear. Found a cute pair of capri-style sweats that she promptly spilled sweet and sour sauce all over. There was a plaza across from the mall that had a Goodwill store so of course we had to stop. I found a pair of HEAVY men's sweats for $5 that fit me perfectly. Now I could be warm!!!! There was also a cool astronomy book that included a red flashlight and planisphere for $2. Needless to say, I was VERY happy at that point. There was also a fantastic Chinese buffet in the same plaza that pretty much blows our local ones out of the water.
Came back to camp to meet up with the rest of the camping crew. Got everyone set up, and started cooking and drinking. And drinking some more. Dee and I got pretty happy on Grey Goose vanilla rum and coke, then I discovered Buttershots. Those things are amazing. Now I haven't had a drop of alcohol for about 3 years (didn't want to do ANYTHING that would mess up my chances of getting pregnant, and then during the pregnancy). So my tolerance wasn't nearly what it used to be. But I got a nice buzz and VERY silly. The camping quote of the year was when Mark made a comment about his drunk wife and I jumped up on unsteady legs and yelled "I'm not drunk ... I'm just HAPPY!!!!" Followed by 5 minutes of uncontrolled giggling. And quoting Captain Jack Sparrow ("the rum is gone ... why is the rum all gone?") Uh huh .... not drunk. Not even close ;)
And such ended day 3 ... I was sober by the time I went to bed though.