Now Playing: That 70's Show
Thursday Brian and I finally got on the road for our camping trip at 5 PM. After getting slightly lost in Hood River (a quaint little town), we managed to get to the campground about 7:45 and got wood (a necessity!) and realized that the campground was almost full. The only available sites were walk-ins, so we had to truck several trips of our stuff from the car to our site at dusk. By the time we were settled it was dark, so we built a fire and roasted hot dogs for dinner.
Friday we woke up and went down to the lake to go canoeing. We spent a couple hours there, floating and drinking beer; it was fun. We ended up just relaxing that afternoon; reading and making dinner. We ended up trying this freeze-dried food that B's friend had given us, and to our surprise it was actually pretty tasty. It was interesting trying to walk to the biffy in the dark. I was wearing a head lamp and it felt oddly like I was in the movie The Blair Witch Project. It was pretty funny.
On Saturday (my birthday) we went for a hike around the lake. There were some cool spots right near the edge of the lake and some great views of Mt. Hood. Unfortunately, I was too lazy to take pictures. We tried to take this one shortcut to our campsite, but it ended up being not very short. We had some lunch, then went back to the lake to go swimming, which was much warmer than we had expected. It was sweet that Brian spent so much effort on cooking my birthday dinner in the woods. We ended up having chicken soup, mashed potatoes and steak. It was really yummy. Then we had Hostess cupcakes (complete with candles) for dessert and just as we cracked open a bottle of wine, it started to drizzle. At first it wasn't so bad, but once the campfire was rained out, we decided to have a cribbage game inside the tent before trying to sleep (and hoping the rain would stop soon). During the last hand of the game, I only needed a few points to win, which I had in my hand. But my crib was awesome - it was 21 points. But anyway....
Sunday morning - it had rained allllll night and was still raining. It rained 2 inches in 10 hours and no wonder there was actually water seeping up from underneath the tent. We tried to pack things up as quickly as possible, even in the rain (which took 3 hours anyway). It was nice to be back in civilization. We rented Hidalgo and The Blair Witch Project and ordered pizza and holed up inside, away from the rain.
It truly was a great weekend....
Now it's only 9 days until I'm off to Hawaii!