Showing posts with label camping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camping. Show all posts

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Campers Beware!

Trevor and I decided to try again at the whole "camping thing" (click if you want a laugh). So we went camping at Quail Lake over the weekend. Everything went great this time, except that I think we were a little too  prepared this time. We got there at about three o'clock, which in St. George language means 97 degrees. Right when we got out of the car I wanted to start setting up camp, Trevor was trying to be a trooper but I think at least ten times I heard him say, "It's just really hot." So I decided that if I wanted my husband to survive this camping trip we'd better take a pit stop. We stayed at my air-conditioned parents house until Trevor decided it was safe enough to step outside which was about 8:30, and set up our camp. 
There were only a few minor set backs, the heat being one of them, and also I thought a bear was attacking our tent all night. I'm not crazy. After Trevor gave me a geography lesson and reassured me for about an hour that there is no way on earth a bear could live, or even want to live in Quail Lake, everything else went smoothly. 

Another minor set back.. We got a two man tent. Which ended up being a two year old tent, or maybe a dog tent, or maybe it was a sleeping bag we're not really sure.. so we borrowed one from my parents.

*working tent? check.
*remembered firewood? check.


We decided to stay long enough for breakfast this time too.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

camping 101

what NOT to do when you go camping:

  • leave your house at 7:45pm
  • get the wrong size of batteries for the only three lanterns that you have
  • forget fire wood
  • bring a broken tent
  • have a dinner that requires a fire to cook (see above)
  • bring the wrong pump for your air mattress (this = no air in your mattress, which = sleeping on the rocks)
In the case that you do happen to encounter all of these problems, don't fret. It makes for a great story!
 the non-fire
our tinfoil dinners on the non-fire 
 Trev contemplating the broken tent..
 determined to make it work
 No tongs for the tinfoil dinner? improvise
 The culprit. You definitely can't have a fire if your lighter is broken.
 Did I mention it was freezing this night? Close to below zero (..or 45 degrees) so we ate in the car with the heater.
Despite all of this, it ended up being the best camping trip ever. I loved it. And we made it out alive.
And look at how gorgeous it was in the morning.

*we may or may not have left at 7:00am and made breakfast at home. I couldn't take another camping issue