Camping 2009

So....Camping this year at Silent Lake (again) was quite..erm...interesting...
Recap:

• Day 1 was cold and wet, as it rained in the morning. We spent the entire morning putting up and taking down tents and tarps due to poor planning.
  
• Once we stopped moving and settled down, we began to feel the cold and I began layering on clothing and socks. I managed to put on five layers of clothing and three pairs of socks in the course of the evening.
• Went to sleep with all five layers of clothes and three layers of socks in two sleeping bags, feet were frozen and had trouble sleeping.
• Day 2 was colder than day 1. I changed into 7 layers of strategically layered clothing early in the morning: was still cold throughout the day.
• We took a very short hike with the boys taking turns carrying the 2 ton botchey (sp?) balls only to come back and not use it.
• Drove to the picnic area and guys played a game of football, with a lot of cheating.
• Justin poked Carmen in the face with a huge log Three Stooges style.
• Perry managed to get stuck into a ditch despite we told him it would be bad idea to drive into it. Took 7 guys to get him out in the course of at least 30 minutes.
• Adam accidentally pushed me and i almost fell face forward into the campfire.
• Any time any of us were not doing something (which is most of the time) we stood around the charcoal bbq with a ton of clothes and our hands out like hobos under a bridge.
  
• Went to bed in more layers of clothing and socks but was still frozen and could not sleep.
• Day 3: Nice and warm and sunny but we had to pack and go home.
• Important to note that we were constantly eating. For the first two day, we must have had like 6 meals and the last day we had 2 meals in four hours in the morning before we headed home.

Cost of the trip: $103 each (how did we spent $1400?)
Lessons learned: Priceless

• Now I know why homeless people dress the way they do as they are outdoors 24/7
• We use more than a bottle of water when brushing our teeth.
• There are almost no bugs in the cold. When camping, pick your battle: bugs or freeze.
• Be grateful for shelters and central heating and the luxury of wearing one layer of clothing in May when walking around outdoors for all but five minutes.
• I see no point in living outdoors.

Pictures to come.