Monday, August 18, 2008

Adventures in Camping--Take 2

I don't even know where to start, other than we decided to go camping for the second weekend in a row. However, this time we thought we were being smarter. Turns out you are not smart unless you make reservations (which seem impossible to get). And tell me why we live Utah and there are so few camp spots?? So here goes...
My sweet neighbor, Whitney and her cutie Holden (age 2) came up early with me and the boys to find a spot. Our husbands were going to meet up with us later. With much bickering, poking, fighting, and biting coming from the back seat, we drove to Big Cottonwood Canyon to find that EVERYTYHING was booked, in Little Cottonwood Canyon, too. We thought we were driving up early enough to get a spot. WRONG!!!! So, we head to American Fork Canyon to find the exact same thing! We thought we were going to cry. But they did have dispersed camping just off the road, if you could find something. Whit and I had great hopes and we drove to Tibble Fork and found the dirt road. I could make this a really long story, but I'll spare you and just say WE FOUND A SPOT! Yay! We were so happy. We threw our stuff down and made the long trek down the mountain (in the car) to get reception on our cell phones to call Pat and Casey to tell them where we were. Our heros!! They were already at Point of the Mountain and on their way! When they found us, they had Subway! (When we, the girls, packed the car, we left the coolers in the car the boys were driving in...so we didn't have any food and were starving!)
It was a fun trip, even though we had to climb down a very steep hill to get to our spot and we had a river on the other side of us that the boys couldn't stay away from. We had an awesome campfire and had fun laughing at Whitney (And I thought I was a scare-dey cat! haha. We love you Whit!) I've never seen dirt attach to humans so quickly as on this trip! We were D I R T Y !! But we had food and friends and a campfire, so what more could you want?! Thanks for a fun trip! Next time we'll have a reservation.
Some of my favorite moments on the trip:

4 comments:

Casey and Whitney MCkell said...

You couldn't have said it better!! I know I heard a deer!!!

Patty R said...

How fun! You guys are wild :) I love camping!

Tyler and Julia said...

Yeah, you finally had a chance to go camping! :) Looks like you had fun even though you had to search all over the place for a spot. We're still free this week if you'd like to hang out. :)

Windy said...

Oh how fun, I am so jealous. I wish I could have gone how fun!! Whitney is a crackup!!