My Camping Trip

Ok, so I was gone for Friday and this weekend (up until today at about 12:40) because I was on a camping trip for Girl Scouts. Basically, we go up to Buffalo, MN and sled, do crafts, play Nintendo DS and do a scavenger hunt. Stuff like that. So, even though you probably don't give a care, I'll just tell you about my trip. (FYI: This is BT style. When you see an asterick [*], go to the bottom of the post. They're called footnotes.)

Friday, I hung out here and lamented the fact that NO ONE was on, then left (got offline) at like 4:45, ate and packed until about 5:30 or 6 central, then started up nort'. We drove for about an hour or so.

When we got there, we checked in and put our sleeping bags in the room in Mary Adams Lodge, which is basically this biggish building with 3 normal-sized rooms and one gimungo crafts room. We were in the third normal-sized room with 6 other families.

So we put our sleeping bags and stuff in there, and got all set up, then went to the mess hall (dining hall, Sally Walls, whatever you want to call it) for snack, which was this weird apple cobler. I passed.

Anyway, then we played Bingo for a while - I got a set of gel pens and a notebook as prizes. After that we went back to our rooms, and my group played Apples To Apples until 11:30 pm, then we all read until about 12:30 am.

The next morning (Saturday), we all woke up at 8, got dressed, went to Sally Walls/the mess/dining hall, and had a breakfast of rock-hard microwave waffles, eggs, sausage, and these awesome cinnamon bagels. And, of course, hot chocolate, which was provided 24/7 at various spots at the camp.

After breakfast we had announcements (Announcements, anouncements, annou-ouncements. What a horrible death to die, what a horrible death to die. . .) and the scavenger hunt sheets were passed out. On it were things like "a pink slipper" and "purple nail polish". Or "a 1965 penny".

Yeah, they were hard, but my group had come prepared. A pair of old pink socks were cut up and duct taped to black slippers for the "pink slipper". See? You learn these things when you come to the camp. ;)

So, yeah, that's the scavenger hunt. We sledded* for a really long time, then played Zelda for a while on Clare's DS, went to lunch, then played TrueColors.** Then we did a few crafts, sledded some more, and then I went back to my room*** to read, which I did for the rest of the time until dinner. We ate, then went sledding again, then went for a hike through the woods, which was WICKED awesome, then played more TrueColors, then I went back to my room to read more.****

Then I woke up, ate breakfast, cleaned the office (where the cooks slept. It was dang hard, let me tell you.), and left. We drove back to good ol' Bloomington, and now here I sit.

Tada!! Comment, email meh, whatever you want. I don't really mind.
Peace, Love, and Llamas! (KOD)
-Emiliano
P.S: No one was here on Friday before I left. :(

*: I brought my snow tube. That thing is the fastest thing EVER. It's kinda scary, because we go waaaaay farther than we're supposed to on it. But we do it anyway, no matter how long and tiring the walk back up the hill is. Which is a whole heck of a lot.

**: That is one of the best games in the world. It's so funny: you ask a question to the group that you're playing with, something like "You're all in jail, and are making your only phone call. Who orders pizza?" Then you vote on who would do it, then you go around saying if you would. Usually the silly ones went to Clare, who fit all of them.

***: I was by far the youngest in that room. Everyone else (except Elizabeth, who's 12 and on my team at school) was at least 14 or 15, although I never asked their ages. It was intimidating (not), but I dealt with it. :P

****: I'm currently rereading Ptolemy's Gate, because Rae *glares* talks about it a lot, and forced me to. So there. (That's also why I'm doing this footnote thing instead of parenthesis. I'd forgotten how handy it is.)