This weekend my family and I, plus a few others, braved the heat (and the incredibly long car drive) to haul our butts down to the Frio River in Garner State park. My dad pulled the trail with all the gear, so it took us five hours instead of four to get there. I know, only five hours right? Haha, WRONG!!!!! It's only five hours on endless highways, with your bossy five year old sister, your farting brother, too much crap in the car, nothing to listen to on your ipod, and I'm really really bad at Angry Birds, car trip! :/ NOT FUN.
But the actual camping was ok.
Here's a brief synopsis: (synopsis, good word, what does it mean? Comment and tell me!)
We arrived friday night, set up camp and cooked dinner. My mom made little mini burgers, and some of the younger kids had hotdogs. Nothing interesting.
The next morning, I get up had a few cups of coffee, eat breakfast, and put on sunscreen and my bathing suit. Then we left for the water. The Frio is down about three feet, and had no current so we couldn't tube like we had hoped, but we did get to splash around the entire day. I was smart enough to wear my sunglasses, thinking that I could protect my eyeballs from the sun. I protected my eyes alright, but now my forehead and tip of my nose are sunbruned, and nothing else.
My poor face looks like an over ripe irratated tomato! Oh well, it'll be gone in a few weeks. Hopefully.
My Aunt Trina and her friend, that we call Aunt April, came at about one or two that afternoon, and spent the rest of the day flouncing around in the water with us. Did I mention it was VERY VERY cold water. Hence the name Frio River...
Our lunch was sandwiches and leftover sliders and hotdogs. I had my fill and went back in the water.
When we got back to camp, we were informed that it was Mexcian night, and we were all eating tacos, enchiladas, and fajitas! YUM! Except that the patrol making the tacos ate them, before they brought them over to the adult area. So no tacos, but with knowing some of the boys in that Patrol I am kind of glad I didn't get one of their Tacos...
My brother made the enchiladas, just about all by himself, and they were DELICIOUS! But the other guy who helped him put way too much Tony's spice in them, and I nearly had a coughing fit after the first bite. I told My brother to make them again, and hide the Tony's from Matt. :)
While we were serving the food, my sister had this bright idea to go and take a walk around the campsite. I'm just saying one word, STUPID. She stepped on some stick that had like four inch thorns over by some tree on the other side of the campsite. It went right through her cutesy pink croc, which still bears the mark, and into her little foot.
She comes back over to the campsite screaming and hobbling on one leg, and nearly gives my mom a heart attack, becasue by the time her shoe was off blood was all over her shoe and the bottom of her foot! So my dad plopped her on a cooler, cleaned her foot, pulled the thorn out, disinfected it (by now it had stopped bleeding), put a very big bandaid on it, then cuddled her until she stopped crying. After the fact she got a very stern talk about not wandering off, and watching where you step.
Everyone kept their shoes on after that...
This morning we ate breakfast, packed up, sang a few church hyms, let my brother shower, and then we were off.
My dad's car hit 100,000 miles today on the beltway coming home. Yah, I guess. I'm not sure what it means, but it was cool to just watch the numbers change. I watched it for like an hour, because my sis didn't let me watch her movie, my ipod has nothing of value, and my mom was sleeping.
Oh, I forgot. My super smart, always packed, and prepared Boy Scout of a brother forgot his compression mat, which is what he sleeps on. The first night he slept on rocks, and was grumpy the next morning. So last night I let me use my cot. I know I'm such a humanitarian, but where am I gonna sleep?
I slept in the truck if you were wondering. Not comfy. My side kept falling asleep before I did, and the back of my legs kept sticking to the leather of my dad's seats. I seriously think no hair will be on the back of my legs for a while, becasue of the ripping sound I heard, and the pain I was feeling. Plus my dad woke me up at like four in the morning, and asked me if I wanted to sleep on his air mattress for a few hours. I said yes and opened the car door. The night before he had told me that he disabled the alarm, either he didn't or that truck doesn't like me, becasue it went off. At four in the freakin morning. Oh yeah, all the other campers really liked me after that :(.
My dad fumbled with his keys, and finally got the stupid thing to go off. Then I went and laid in his tent becasue I couldn't go back to sleep. Fun Fun. I'm kinda grumpy now after loading and unloading the trailer in the heat, and working with about oh maybe four, five hours of sleep. Did I mention I have basketball camp tomorrow????????
Yeah that's about it. We got t-shirts today, and water, and sweat tea, and we ate at Dairy Queen for lunch. Super fun. Super tiring. Super not ready for basketball camp.
Wish me luck, hope I don't die.
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