Thursday, March 20, 2008

Odd vacation

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Strange or weird or odd vacations:
When I was living in Iowa, land of excitement (ok, not really), a group of us decided that we were going to go to AdventureLand for the day, and then camp for the rest of the weekend, somewhere. We decided this at about 6am, and we were heading out at about 6:30am, the same day.
It rained, all day. We never thought to check the weather. We never though to check who was packing what, either. Between a group of five of us, we had three sleeping bags, a few loose blankets, the clothes we grabbed before we left, and a tarp. No tent, no cook stove, nothing to cook with, nothing to do.
We ended up making it work, somehow. We hit a gas station and got some rope, so we could sling up the tarp. We made 'nests' out of the blankets, and luckilly, my mom taught me how to make awesome fires (Goddess of campfires..yeah, that's my mom, in human form-sometime I'll tell y'all about a ranger coming and telling her to make her fire smaller). We had to drive from our campsite into town every day for the three days we camped, in order to get food. We ate a lot of hotdogs, marshmallows, and chips that weekend. We also drank a lot of really warm soda.
We survived the weekend, and headed home, We stopped at a sit down restaurant to eat, halfway home, and realized that for 3 and a half days we had been out in the rain, the mud, sleeping outside, with no shower, perfume, deoderant, not even washing our faces. Denny's manager, we are eternally sorry.

4 comments:

Fat Angie said...

I think that your vacation story owns mine, hands down. Lol. Thanks for the comment!

Grinningcomb said...

Now THAT is a camping trip! And I thought we had it bad just forgetting our tent poles.

Admin said...

Now that beats my record of leaving on an unplanned camping trip. Mine was 1 hour(but we didn't have a car so we took the train) ans thanks to my packing freak best friend we got all the pieces of the tent(I once left the nails at home but we solved that with 4 big rocks and our huge backpacks).

Anonymous said...

I grew up thinking camping with mishaps was just part of the deal. That said, apologizing to the Denny's manager is the line of the entry.