Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Camping Is--
Games in the Camper
Instead of a short list, I let go and wrote a book. And this is just about the last weekend...
I survived! Camping in a tent again, no less. Who said I don't camp? >:-O Two other families and mine got together at Woodson Bridge for some good old fashion fun. Our camper is in the shop, so we made do. This state park is right along the Sacramento River, right outside of Corning. Beautiful place! Until we got out of our trucks, that is. Within 5 minutes of getting out, we were mosquito meals. The humidity on top of that was too bad for words. I despise humidity! We fixed the mosquito problem somewhat with lots of bug spray and cool lanterns that you can hang around to drive them off. The humidity problem later vanished with the sun. Wouldn't you know that it would rain the first night? And in a tent no less? We were hanging in the Ds camper when I kept seeing flashes out of the corner of my eye. It was driving me crazy 'cause I couldn't figure out what it was! Little did I know but that a _huge_ thunder storm was coming our way. Lightening, thunder, lightening, thunder, lightening, thunder...you get the idea. It was pretty cool! Then came the rain. It came down from heaven with a boom! When we thought it couldn't get heavier, it did. There's just something about storm like this that is so powerful. Lightening withstanding, you just feel compelled to run out into it and spin around until you just collapse. Well, I resisted the urges, which is prolly good as it would've prolly have confirmed my craziness to my friends. :P
The next day was once again beautiful and sunny! With lunch packed, we headed out to Black Butte Lake. As you're driving to it, surrounding you is dry, brown, ugly weeds. Just as you're about to give up hope of ever seeing water again, you spot something--a lake! Though they had just told us earlier that week that they had beaches, we were informed at the gate that they were all covered in water. Nice. We drove up to the covered-in-water-beaches and saw signs in the water that said stuff like: no driving, open 8 am to 10 pm, and the like. I, for one, would like to see people trying to drive in water! We found a nice spot, set up, ate lunch, and jumped on the boat. Little C got up on skis on her first time ever, and Lucy got her first tubing ride. I had so much fun in the tube! At times I had to hang on for dear life, but that just lead me to stick out my tongue at M when the nearly dying on wakes ended. ;-) My poor sister got a bad sunburn on the backs of her shoulders. She couldn't reach that spot when she sprayed on sunscreen and didn't have anyone help her. Ouch! It has to be pretty bad if my dad or my sisters or I get sunburned! M pulled off his famous tubing stunts. They're good enough to pay to watch! On the wakeboard, though, he has got to pull off the 360. Landing it and missing the rope just isn't good enough. Yeah, look who's talking...
Last day was beautiful again! We had a nice little church service under the trees, sitting in camp chairs, and waving away mosquitos. My sister played the guitar while we sang out of our rest home song books. You don't even need to wear glasses for those. Because it was lunch time by the time we were packed up and ready to go, and In-N-Out was too far away, we ate a yummy lunch in the park. Half the kids managed to get hurt on the monkey bars. No broken arms, though! The day cumulated in dinner at the Ds, coming home and unpacking, and diving into bed. What a fantabulous, fun, family and friends weekend!
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Instead of a short list, I let go and wrote a book. And this is just about the last weekend...
I survived! Camping in a tent again, no less. Who said I don't camp? >:-O Two other families and mine got together at Woodson Bridge for some good old fashion fun. Our camper is in the shop, so we made do. This state park is right along the Sacramento River, right outside of Corning. Beautiful place! Until we got out of our trucks, that is. Within 5 minutes of getting out, we were mosquito meals. The humidity on top of that was too bad for words. I despise humidity! We fixed the mosquito problem somewhat with lots of bug spray and cool lanterns that you can hang around to drive them off. The humidity problem later vanished with the sun. Wouldn't you know that it would rain the first night? And in a tent no less? We were hanging in the Ds camper when I kept seeing flashes out of the corner of my eye. It was driving me crazy 'cause I couldn't figure out what it was! Little did I know but that a _huge_ thunder storm was coming our way. Lightening, thunder, lightening, thunder, lightening, thunder...you get the idea. It was pretty cool! Then came the rain. It came down from heaven with a boom! When we thought it couldn't get heavier, it did. There's just something about storm like this that is so powerful. Lightening withstanding, you just feel compelled to run out into it and spin around until you just collapse. Well, I resisted the urges, which is prolly good as it would've prolly have confirmed my craziness to my friends. :P
The next day was once again beautiful and sunny! With lunch packed, we headed out to Black Butte Lake. As you're driving to it, surrounding you is dry, brown, ugly weeds. Just as you're about to give up hope of ever seeing water again, you spot something--a lake! Though they had just told us earlier that week that they had beaches, we were informed at the gate that they were all covered in water. Nice. We drove up to the covered-in-water-beaches and saw signs in the water that said stuff like: no driving, open 8 am to 10 pm, and the like. I, for one, would like to see people trying to drive in water! We found a nice spot, set up, ate lunch, and jumped on the boat. Little C got up on skis on her first time ever, and Lucy got her first tubing ride. I had so much fun in the tube! At times I had to hang on for dear life, but that just lead me to stick out my tongue at M when the nearly dying on wakes ended. ;-) My poor sister got a bad sunburn on the backs of her shoulders. She couldn't reach that spot when she sprayed on sunscreen and didn't have anyone help her. Ouch! It has to be pretty bad if my dad or my sisters or I get sunburned! M pulled off his famous tubing stunts. They're good enough to pay to watch! On the wakeboard, though, he has got to pull off the 360. Landing it and missing the rope just isn't good enough. Yeah, look who's talking...
Last day was beautiful again! We had a nice little church service under the trees, sitting in camp chairs, and waving away mosquitos. My sister played the guitar while we sang out of our rest home song books. You don't even need to wear glasses for those. Because it was lunch time by the time we were packed up and ready to go, and In-N-Out was too far away, we ate a yummy lunch in the park. Half the kids managed to get hurt on the monkey bars. No broken arms, though! The day cumulated in dinner at the Ds, coming home and unpacking, and diving into bed. What a fantabulous, fun, family and friends weekend!
