Friday, June 28, 2013

stormy

It's pouring rain outside, and we're currently under a severe thunderstorm warning. And after 3 years of no storms to speak of, I am LOVING every crash and bang! (I'd love it more if I could spend the afternoon enjoying it from inside the house, but hey, three clients (at least) is nothing to sneeze at!)

So. Camping. We got off to a rough start (nearly forgot hamburger meat, couldn't find my swim trunks, had to stop for allergy meds), but once we got out of the metro area, the drive was great, and we were at the campground by 12:30. We picked a beautiful rustic tent site looking out on Foote Pond, and by 5 o'clock, we'd gotten the tent up, cooked sausages on the fire, made love, and taken a nap. It was idyllic and blissful. That night, we cooked hamburgers on the fire (we didn't bring a single vegetable or fruit! LOL!)...and realized that we'd forgotten pots and pans. It turned out not to matter too much, because we overslept Saturday morning, so breakfast was handfuls out of our (almost three-pound) bag of trail mix, and we bought coffee at The Dam Store on the way to the canoe rental place.
 
We got started down the river shortly after 9am, and had the water to ourselves the majority of the trip. We each caught a fish (trout, i think - and mine was a Golden Rainbow Trout!), but they were too small to keep. Both were caught on my line, using Frank, my fake minnow lure, because the fish kept robbing E's live bait off her hook! Alas, eventually my line snapped on a cast, and Frank is a permanent resident of the river. We just hope he sank to the bottom without inflicting any damage on the other residents.

We ate our turkey sandwiches along the way, and made several stops for rock hunting and swimming. Nothing like swimming in a cold, clear river, with nobody else around! I brought home a pocketful of rocks, too - one really neat agate, and lots of fossils, which I'm hoping to get identified. Fascinating stuff.

By the last leg of the trip, the wind had come up, and we had to paddle hard to keep from being blown into trees. There was one point when we couldn't get our nose pointed the right way no matter what we tried, and after that, we were pretty much done, lol! We were still having lots of fun, but we were also exhausted and just wanted out of the boat. You should've heard us cheer when we saw our destination, lololol! We drove back to camp, took showers, got ice cream at the camp store...and passed out. For six hours. It was the most epic nap ever! LOL!

We woke up around 10, bought more firewood and a cheap frying pan, re-heated the hamburgers, and went back to sleep. On Sunday morning, we boiled water in the frying pan for the French press, then cooked an entire pound of bacon and some eggs for breakfast sammiches. We got the site packed up (So easy! We work so well together!), and took a much-needed dip in the pond to cool off before driving home. We changed clothes in semi-privacy...except we forgot to close the drivers' side door, and I *may* have unintentionally mooned some passing cars. Oh, well. Worse things have happened, lol.

All in all, it was an amazing weekend, and we are definitely going back next year! Pics and further details later, time to head to work.

Oh - I regret to announce the death of Fibonacci, who passed shortly after we got back from Portland. He was a wonderful snail, and much missed. We have his shell, and are keeping it.

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