Let me back up. Okay, we went camping. Actually we camped on the secret land of some friends, the architect LeRoy Landers and the dermatologist Maeran Landers; it got kind of crazy, especially Miki and Ida crazy.
It did allow us to use our "new" six person tent. Enormous. Big enough?
I cannot tell you where this place is located, as there are numerous NO TRESPASSING signs posted. It is on the scenic Umpqua river, however, and that is one nice river.
I tried a little fishing, and managed to catch this fancy innertube that floated downstream all by itself. Hopefully its owner did not drown, or we would be cursed; most likely it was owned by one of the groups of people rafting and tubing down the river (one with a dog), but Ida hid the innertube when they passed, as she'd been instructed to do.
One of us forgot any swimwear and was left to cavort in his underwear, but no one seemed to care. It's easy, in these parts. (This brought to mind the time that the same individual was given a speeding ticket in California while wearing no pants [don't worry: he was wearing underwear]). Also, those are not calf implants. I've been liftin.
We moved outdoors and had a delicious feast!
And then we began to get ready for bed. Or did we? This is where things really went south on the trip. Very little sleep was had.
While the rest of us settled down, Ida insisted on going back outside, taking off her pants, and sitting on the innertube while pretending to "ride the waves" on the river below. After some extremely dramatic interactions with her mother--in which she returned to the tent, flopped around like a fish in her sleeping bag, threatening to wake up Miki, was exiled to the darkness where she wailed and threw her Therm-a-rest around, etc, etc. And when she wasn't going crazy, Miki was engaged in nurse-a-thons or just manifesting her complete excitement about being inside the tent.
Imagine this at about two in the morning:
8 comments:
How is this making people feel about the Virginia trip?
How does this make people feel about the SLC trip?
Bring it on!
You are so brave!
The first photo makes ERV looks like she is on her way back from dropping what I like to call a "Ma Deuce" in the woods. Nice.
Miki is loud.
We now look on every trip as a punishment and an adventure. Miki will have her own tent and Ida will sleep in the car (at one point Ella threatened that Ida would have to sleep in the car, a threat that backfired when Ida liked the idea). Meanwhile, DKV, that's very perspicacious. We had no running water.
When the material is appetizing, the crowd gathers. The scene setting was nicely understated.
Talulah and Miki deserves a comment just on Talulah's teaching ability if nothing else.
Wow. I, for one, am impressed that you brought a dinette set on your camping trip. How civilized.
I'm glad i live alone
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