Pictures From the Camping Trip

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Well here you have it folks. These are the pictures that were taken on the camping trip...














:D

Flop.2008.

Monday, July 7, 2008

This past weekend my friends and I ventured into the civilized-wilderness. We drove 3 hours north - near Algonquin Park - and camped out at a place called Mikisew park which is on Eagle Lake. And for the next 3 days we shared food, shower gels, bug repellent and tons of laughter.

But this weekend didn't start off as smooth as one would have liked. 12 hours before the trip started one of the drivers bailed on the trip leaving 3 people stranded, and 48 hours before that 9 people flopped. So this trip looked like it wasn't going to happen.

So with 9 people not coming and a driver calling in too sick to drive this, not only increased blood pressure, but also the cost of going. So to make a super long story short, after some debate we decided to rent a car at 7am Friday morning. And after calling and checking out a few car rental places, we got a car at 11am. This, I believe, saved the trip from not happening.

So 3 cars, and 9 people later, we finally got rolling around 1pm, which was 4 hours later than what we wanted, but at last we were on out way!

:D

2.5 hours later just when things couldn't get any worse, we decided to change car leader so the new leader has the GPS Navigator...I mean why now? We were leading...all is good, we've got the directions, wtf? But no, we needed to be guided by the GPS...10 minutes later we get lost. Don't ask me how...but we got lost...so after circling for 20 minutes the third car trailing finally arrives and saves the day.

FINALLY we've arrived at the camp site. our camp ground was perfect - it was almost the size of half of a football field. Tones of privacy, two fire pits, a huge tree leaning over giving us plenty of shade and right in front of us was the lake...it was paradise.

The second we pitched our tents, all my stress from work - home - and any other bs that was on my mind disappeared...we all placed out chairs around the fire pit, started a fire and from that point on we were just chillin.

It never got too hot because the breeze from the lake provided the perfect temperature to sit outside all day and the only bugs that were of any bother were dragonflies. We even had a chipmunk that would visit us every afternoon to munch on the sunflower seeds that we snacked on all weekend - we even name it Billie (cause we weren't too sure of its sex - so we played it safe :P ). We also had a family of ducks visit us in the morning and evening for their fair share of food. A couple of us were thinking roast a duck, but then the idea of cleaning it was not appealing.

No raccoons or bears were reported or seen.

The best though was the Comfort Zone, which is our bathroom and shower centre, but If you live in Toronto then you know that this used to be (I dunno if it still is) an afters party lounge club. In any case we always got a good chuckle out it every time someone announce that they were hitting the Comfort Zone...hahaha...

These showers pretty cool. It kinda reminded me of the 3 Shells in the movie Demolition Man. There were no knobs or handle to turn on the water - just this circular puck with three holes. After 20 seconds of trying to figure it out, turns out you just have to place your thumb over the middle hole and the water just turns on. You can't control the temperature but after 15 seconds of cold water it finally warms up nicely.

Funny story time: On the second day I was taking a shower and while I was drying myself, I got to my legs - so I propped one the ledge and started towel drying, which was conveniently covering my private area, because as I was switching legs a guy opens my door looks at me say,
'Oh sorry'. I look at him and say,'Oh! its okay!'. And we both started laughing. I was more embarrassed of course but it was funny nevertheless. As I was leaving he was waiting for the shower he tipped his hat, I tipped my head and never saw him ever again.

:P

Gross story time: So when we get there and after everything is set, we start a huge fire. We all then decide that its time to cook food. So I split my food with my friend whom I was sharing the tent with and we got Hamburgers - Brats - and Chicken. So we decided that because I can't eat Brats (pork) that I would eat the burgers for now...np...we had 25 sirloin steak burgers. For the first day and a half I had burger for Dinner (the night we got there), Breakfest and Lunch...so dinner time rolls around and at this point I am sick of burgers I had 12 and was not about to eat another one - but I did :(

Now for my 13th burger I did not cook it. It was slightly raw but I ate it anyways, primary because I had to wait 45 mins for it to cook (go figure). After 20 mins I wasn't feeling too well and it wasn't because of the slightly raw burger - it because I hadn't done #2 in 48 hours...I was a lil concerned. So now its 11pm and I'm not feeling all to well...I decide to walk to the Comfort Zone but a quarter way in I turn back and ask one of the guys to drive me warning them of the situation. In the end I drove myself with the fear of exploding in the driver seat!

I get to the Comfort Zone, run into the bathroom, made sure everything was cleaned and wiped down properly even though I was millimetres away of exploding in my pants...finally sat down and nothing wanted to come out...wtf!!!???!!! Just a lil fart! thats it! So I waited for 5 mins and then the fattest - longest piece of poop exited my ass. It was so long that it coiled around the hole of the toilet and by the time I was done it was above the toilet water! The worst was flushing is down...after 20 flushes and a stick to jab it all in, I was in the clear...and 10 pounds lighter :D

I did not eat another burger through out the duration of the trip.

All in all it was a great trip. I'll post pictures later. Have to wait ppl to put them on FB :P

So if your wondering why this entry's title is called Flop.2008.? Thats the name of our camp...Flop because so many people Flopped out last minute.