The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
by Ah camping week is over already. I look forward to it all year and then it just flies right by. It is always filled with good times but it has it's not so good moments. First, I'd rather start with The Bad:
*The mosquitos were like ravenous wolves. Holy. I would literally run out of the tent or our friends' camper and head straight for the bottle of OFF b/c I really thought they were right around a corner stalking me and just waiting to come get me as soon as I came out. Monsters. *I love my fam but they start to drive me crazy. Dear goodness it's almost like living at home again, only in a much smaller, more confined space. My mom is so freakish about being neat and organized ALL the time, NO matter what. Good lord woman, we are living on a big pile of dirt-it's going to be DIRTY. And we're on vacay, who the heck wants to be neat and organized then? AHH. And boys smell. How the heck do they immediately get that funkiness all over the tent? *Then there were the 2 storms that blew in, the 2nd one forcing us to pack up a day early unless we wanted to decamp in knee deep mud. Poop.
Far outweighing the bad, is The Good:
*Fabulous weather most of the week, sleeping in, forgetting about life at home, and the biggest decision being whether to swim in the pool, lake or go to the beach. who wouldn't love that?? So much fun had. Every year we make up better and more ridiculous games to play in the lake. Replacing last year's game of "Protect the President" (a game consisting of a prez, his team of bodyguards, and a team of assassins whose job it is to peg the prez in the head w/ the volleyball. we did play one round this year) was a game where 3 or 4 people launch one person into the air by their feet as high as possible. At first everyone was doing spins and junk and trying to dunk the ball in an inner tube, but then we just got to trying launching each other into the tube. Seeing my dad get launched was one of the funniest things ever. And since my mom and i were lightest we had a big air contest hitting 10+ feet in the air. *Scrabble grudge match, campfires & smores (which lead to great discussions on the gaynesses of Karate Kid I & II), midnight walks by the lake watching the meteor shower, mini golf tournament of champions, swimming to my heart's content. And although we left the campground a day early, we continued the festivities w/ a big sleepover at Billy and Allyson C's house nearby.
Finally, The Ugly:
Playing baseball in a field of mosquitos (i swear it was a trap they set for us), i got nailed in the leg with a line drive (i was pitching). The next day I somehow managed to hit myself in the shin with a tennis racket, and later someone ended up kicking me while swimming. Combine the bruises with the bites and my left leg looks like it was on the losing end of a bar-room brawl with a motorcycle gang and a herd of mosquitos. It's not pretty.
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I'm going camping Sept. 17th. Many good times will be had. Your trip sounded fun and slightly adventurous. Makes me even more excited. Not for the bloody mosquitos though. I'm imagining the theme from the Good, the Bad and the Ugly! Ennio Morricone does the best western scores!
where are you going?
The beach was so beautiful this week! Except for the wind on Tuesday and Wednesday, that was awful. We got eaten alive by bugs even though we had a house! I bought the coolest hat at one of those stores on the pavement-walk at seaside- its a huge straw hat with a big old black bow tie for your chin. So grandma like.
We played a new game which I call "post-its." Everyone writes the name of a famous person (fictional or not) on a post-it and then sticks it on the forehead of someone else. So, you then know who everyone but yourself is. You have to go around the circle asking yes or no questions to figure it out. Very amusing.
I like the idea of "Protect the President" it sounds fun.
Living in the house with two boys was oooodddddd. I've never had to live with a male besides my dad, you actually have to like..close doors completing when you dress and I donno. Go all-girl families!
i LOVE that post-its game. soooo much fun.
It was good times cause my grandma was playing with us for most rounds and she kept giving everyone real hard people (like Johnny Cash, Nelson Rockafeller..wow spelled real bad too) but she would get hers in like..3 questions!
am i a singer? yes
do i have a nickname? yes
do i have a daughter? yes
i'm elvis presley.
your grandma is AMAZING!!! at the post it game. how did she know that so fast??? she rocks. and i got stuck being the ultimate loser two times in a row!!! i stink at this game.
man it was like a wind tunnel on the beach wednesday. crazy. everything was covered in sand. finally i couldn't take the sand blasting anymore and just went back to the pool to swim.
the post it game sounds fun. i'll have to try that sometime.
did you guys go to the campground at all?
We were there Wednesday night for a camp fire but mostly you couldn't get me off the beach!
Also, we went to Yum Yum ice cream and got the Pig there! So cool.
Yum Yum? is that the chinese food/ice cream place on route 9?
oh so you missed the "dance" on fri. HAHAHA i love the "dance".
Hahaha no that's Phaze..which we actually ordered chinese food from! I love Sweet and Sour Chicken with rainbow sprinkles on it.
Yum Yum is in the center of Sea Isle and they offer the pig which is a trough (spelling?) of 15 different scoops of ice cream and 10 toppings. Good stuff.
I LOVE the dances!! I always go and enjoy one good dance where I do my "ultimate white girl dance" in the middle of the floor. All the 10-year old hoochies part like the sea to watch me break it down.
hm, sounds nauseatingly good.
hahaha yeah we go to watch all the "prostitots" as we call them dance and get down to the sexy electric slide. sooooo funny. haha who the heck gets dressed up to go to a campground dance?? WHO?? too much.
hahaha, wow, sounds like good times, i wonder if we can transfer some of these games to Vermont this year....
haha i'm sure we can do a snowball version of protect the president. but it's harder to launch people when you aren't in water. we can give it a try though
yeah, and im gonna throw a snowball the size of a car at you again and laugh and laugh when you have the wind knocked outta you and crawling around on the snow... he he
i elect YOU to be the president. i'm always an assasin. i get to throw the boulders at YOU this time tough guy
ha, oh please, im too stealthy and smooooooooooth... ill sneak around and nobody will be the wiser.
Yeah if they are all knocked out with sleeping pills maybe then but even then we can't be sure.
oh man i got wrecked by the misquitos and we ran out of off and for some reason i didnt think i needed it, im still suffering
we tried camping in an xterra, it would have been fine if there wasn't so many stupid mosquitos
sounds like some good memories!!!
man, i hope the bug repellant worked, this west nile thing is WAYYY to crazy
oh man i almost forgot the best part-while in a music store i found a copy of "Dan Hill's Greatest Hits" I kick myself every day for not buying it. nice mustache.
i love that guy. sometimes people think he's my dad. but he's not.
Are you sure?
quite. if my dad was married to Faith Hill, I would have noticed.
Um you do know Faith Hill is married to Tim McGraw right?
yeah, but she wasn't always. first, she was married to dan hill.
Hm interesting I didn't know that.
Ah so that's how you got the bruise. You started to tell me but the meeting started and I forgot all about it. Man every time you go away you always come back bruised and battered. lol
i also forgot to mention that i had the most massive brain fart on the way up. i'm driving the jeep and andrew was driving my dad's truck behind us. i lost him on the way to the parkway. the whole way we are like 'where the heck is he'. I am just about to go thru the Raritan Toll when I realize- i just traveled a half hour in THE WRONG DIRECTION. and of course i realized it AFTER there was no place to turn around so i had to go over the bridge, onto route 9, and turn around by woodbridge mall. i was so annoyed with myself (though everyone else was amused w/ the retardation). what the heck is wrong w/ my brains??
going in the wrong direction is counter-productive. i use to do it now and then when i first started driving, but i've got a handle on it now.
thanks for the tip. i'll remember that next time i accidentlly go the wrong way.
lol! ok, you want a tip? Always keep your eye on signs. Also, try to ascertain the cardinal direction your destination is, so you can at least move in that direction if you don't know exactly which route to take.
i usually hold my finger finger out the window to determine wind speed and direction and then use the sun or stars to guide me in which direction i should go in, but maybe i'll try your way next time. Thanks Tip Guy!
last nite comin home from the beach. the sign warns you that the exit is coming up on the left for easton, pa. 202 and 206. did i move out of the left lane? nope. and there was tractor treailers next to me. lots of fun.
Happens to the best of us.
Hahaha. Illegal U-turns with cops following you and extreme lane changing!
i can't wait to see the pictures of that dumb cop just staring at us like:: "wait, the buick's broken? are you sure? is that why you're pushing it into traffic? i'll watch ya. maybe if i put my lights on it'll help" what a waste of life.
That makes me so sad for you.
I used to do that all the time when I was still working at fedex because I was so used to going north everytime I had to go south I would automaticly get on going north. It was so annoying.