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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Camping (the lowdown)


O.k. I'm going to be short because I think part of my problem is I ramble on and on and I never manage to finish my blog entries in a timely manner. So here's the short version of us camping.

We stayed at Sugar Pine Point in Lake Tahoe. Absolutely beautiful place. We were a two minute ride from Meeks Bay. When it was sunny it was lovely. Meeks Bay was gorgeous. The water was cold but clear. The kids all played together well. I got to reconnect with some people from my past. (I'll explain later - Watsonville is truly a small town). Henry enjoyed being able to just pee in the woods (as long as he pee-ed away from the tent). And there's nothing like a smore before bedtime. We all sat around the fire and sang silly songs. This is stuff made for fond childhood memories.

However, there were a few snags in the trip (what's a vacation without a few snags.) First, the mosquitos had a smorgesborg. Our air mattress had an irrepairable leak in it. There was a bear threat the whole weekend (which forced me to be neater than I have ever been in my entire life!) So I had to hide the food and clean up our site every day. (There was a sighting the night before we got there but, none after) It rained the day and night before we left, really rained. Sam and Henry looked like ghosts in their ponchos. Sam's poncho (as everything else) was too big and kept slipping! And last but not least, our little Sam had an ear infection! We went to Urgent Care in So. Lake Tahoe, got turned away (they were "full" - Matt was infuriated), and ended up waiting 3 hours at the Emergency room. And the ride back was long and ardous with Sam's ear bugging him the entire time.

Other than that, we had a great time and vowed to do more camping. We came away with 4 lessons learnt. 1. We need a bigger tent 2. There was an Urgent care a lot closer to Sugarpine Point that we missed. 3. I need to make sure to cover Matt completely with Sunscreen. and 4. We either need a trailer or a bigger car... And that my friends leads us to the next entry!...

Promise. Cross my heart hope to d-i-e...

O.k. public apology time!! Big big big SORRY to all of you (yeah, all 5 of you) who read my blog. I haven't updated in a while because things have been so busy. It's July already and we've gone on a camping trip, gave up an old car (the bright yellow Mazda) and bought a new car, gone on trips and more stuff and lit fireworks and... my dear readers (all 5 of you) haven't heard hide nor hair of it. Anyway, I'm SORRY! I'll try to be better soon. I'll give you an updated by either tonight or tomorrow morning. PROMISE...