vampiresquirrel

I just had perhaps one of the best weekends I've had in a loong time. I went camping with some friends and even though the weather was quite shitty,we managed to have a great time. Here's a little overview of how the weekend went down.

Friday me, Nick, Nikki, and Dan met up at 9:30 to pack everything into the car. This was way more difficutl than it should have been, and became even more challenging when it began to thunder and lightning. Eventually the rain slowed and we left around 12.

We got to the campsite at around 3 and started setting up the tents and such. At 4 Mike, Jay, and Bill showed up and set up their shit. Once everything was set up we all headed into the screen house since it was still raining quite a bit. With nothing better to do, we decided to break out the liquor. And thus at 4:30 in the afternoon, I proceeded to get drunk for the first time that day.

After the rain stopped, we decided to check out the river they had there. It was very shallow and rocky and had a pretty strong current. I would compare it to a very painful, sludgy water slide. It was fun though, especially since I was still mildly innebriated at the time.

Then dinner yadayada blah blah.... happened.

Then at 9 we decided to try and build a fire, which was quite fun. I swear all the people I went with are obsessed w/ fire and sharp objects. We all sat around the fire and once again broke out the liquor. Jay and I nearly finished the entire handle of Captain, doing shots to just about anything you could think of. At one point we decided to do half shots because we had been drinking so much. Of course these were done back to back and thus really didn't help at all. Jay is quite a character when under the influence. He kept covering himself in dirt saying that we had to hide from "the enemy". He kept grabbing me and swinging me about telling me to run and save myself. lol. good times.

Then I went to take a piss behind a tree and the camp owner came to our site to tell us to quiet down. Once again i found myself hididng from authority behind a tree with my pants down. oy.

Anyhow, the next 12 or so hours were mainly filled with me and jay puking, passing out, and puing some more.

Then Mike, Jay, and Bill ( ja still incredibly hungover) went on a hike through some unknown woods and apparently got lost and separated (did I mention it was raining again?).

Meanwhile, Nikki, dan, Nick and I stayed at the camp site and built more fire. Nick and I went down to the stream again and got devoured by horse flies. Since our clothes had gotten wet from the rain, Nikki and I went up to the dryers and waited the 45 minutes for them to dry. When we got back, we found that dan was "in his happy place". Apparently the gin and beer had called to him.

the rest of the night was filled with roasting marhmallows, seeing a fantastic show of about a gazilloin fire flies, and rain. Bill, Jay, and Mike discovered that their tent was incredibly flooded and decided to peace out around 12 am. They threw the tent in the dumpster.

Nick, Nikki, dan, and I hung out by the fire a bit longer and then decided to go to bed. Nick and I discovered that his sleeping bag was soaking wet so we had to justlay on top of mine. I couldn't get to sleep because I was so cold, so I took off my socks and pants because they were so wet and stole a pair of socks from dan. Still couslnt sleep after that so we went out and sat by the fire for a while.

While we were out there I heard a tree fall down. Apparently there was someone stumbling throught the woods by our campsite. Nick got all paranoid about it and that made me paranoid espeicially since I still didn't have any pants on. We went tinto the jeep to sleep in there and apparently nick brought his hatchet with him. Finally I got to sleep.

this morning we packed up and left. then got home and sat on our asses and watched tv. and that, kids, was my weekend.