So this camping trip we went on… we basically complained a lot about how Brandon wasn’t there to eat all the excess food and how Alex wasn’t there to take better pictures. ;x
Some stuff that was awesome: campsite location was quiet, private, pretty, and shady! Bathrooms were mercifully clean, bugs were only vaguely irritating. Setup was relatively painless and mildly hilarious. The weather was absolutely PERFECT, from the time we arrived until we went to bed. (In my opinion, anyway. ;x )
The Munchkin game that we started after finishing setup lasted way too long to the point where we were playing by flashlight, but it contained epic perfectly-ordinary-bunny-rabbit vengeance.
Some stuff that was sucky: the “full shade” of the site was awesome until night fell and I realized that our potentially amazing view of the moonlit lake was just about completely obstructed. I went… kind of batty over this, but I got over it once I put my camera away. A point-and-click is pretty worthless in full dark. I tried manual mode and there are some okay photos of the moon and water, but they’re all way too noisy, qq.
The crickets… must have been like, genetically engineered to trigger headaches. They seriously buzzed/sang at such a constant rate and resonance that I’m pretty sure my mild headache late at night was caused by the sound they were producing, which made going to sleep somewhat difficult. Still, I managed to get at least six or seven hours, and again, the temperature was really fantastic… neither too warm nor too cold for a sleeping bag.
The drive was pretty horrible approaching the lake and leaving was only slightly better. I basically felt like I was playing Initial D, since it was just a two lane road and super windy. (That’s… wind-y… as in, winding. Not… right, you know.) And that was … an adventure, especially since I’m not a terribly confident driver.
And … well, we had a pretty wtf-epic experience with moving Tansen’s tent that is not documented in any way… and nor do I feel like explaining the details. >_>; … (I hope my car antenna is okay…)
Overall, though!, definitely net positive experience. (And this should be obvious because I don’t usually go to this much trouble weblogging an experience these days. >_> ) Glad I went and TYVM to Dev for being persistent and organizing the whole thing. ^.^;
