I love camping. I love it, I love it, I love it! On Friday, after a boring week of work, Karey and Sarita picked me up at home and that is when my weekend began. I was a thoughtful friend (kudo's to me) and bought a cinnamon bun for Sarita, Karey & laura. Unfortunately for me, I didn't get one for myself because I didn't feel like eating but I sorely regretted it later as I gave Laura hers, about an hour after I bought it and I realized I was soo hungry. Karey, Laura & I went to the RS Retreat out in Squamish and on the way we had some good times of just some good chit chat. We didn't get out to the campsite until about 8ish and before that we went to Subway in Brackendale because karey and I were soo hungry. I knew that there would be food at the retreat but I wanted something now! Anyway, we went to the campsite, Paradise Valley Campground, it is sooo cute and perfect. The drive out there is very beautiful, trees are on either side of the road and create an overhang, so it looks like you are driving through a tunnel. It reminds me of pictures I have seen of roads like this in New England. I took a picture of it and I want to go back and take a picture of the trees in fall, winter and spring. I know that those will make great pictures. For some reason, everytime I go camping, I think that a miracle will occur and somehow I will end up positioning my sleeping bag over the softest part of the ground and am a little disappointed when I lie down and realize it wasn't to be this time. I even had a camping pad and an extra sleeping bag to cushion me from the ground but it felt like I was sleeping on a cement floor. That night, after we set up our tent(s) (we had an extra for our change room...hehe so clever) we drove to the church for the activities and food. There were some ladies cleaning the kitchen and then we walk in and pull out the leftovers and start putting food on our plates..when they found out we hadn't eaten supper yet (well the retreat's supper) they couldn't stop trying to pile food onto our plates. Do you need this? do you want that? Oh you must have this...and on and on and on. One of the ladies, gave me a half of a baked potato even though i said I didn't want a potato but she gave it to me anyway. I ended up eating, the potato, two pieces of BBQ chicken breast and this yummy layered salad tat Sister Rolfson made. Then, Laura and I got some ice cream afterwards.
As I am reading this, I realized...not very interesting is it? But the most important parts is playing Rook by two lanterns and a flashlight with Chandra, Karey/Niki, and Laura. We ate cherries and had a great time just playing and chatting. There were some asian sisters that were up all night talking and guess who they parked their tent beside...that's right, us. I think they got only a couple of hours of sleep but whenever we passed by their tent...yak yak yak. Also, a couple of sisters had an inflatable mattress (queen size i think) and they were trying to push it into the door of a two-three person tent. A little later, I looked back at the tent and noticed that the mattress was inside but that's all that would fit inside. The tent conformed to the mattress shape it was so small compared to it. Amazing. Karey, Laura and i went to Shannon Falls and karey and I hiked up the creek a bit. We walked on the rocks..i love rock jumping, so fun, turns out Laura does not. Karey followed the rocks a little more up towards the falls but I didn't feel like it and it took me a while to find my way down without getting wet.
I'll edit this later and add in our Murrin Provincial park swim...fun
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