Memorial Day Weekend camping came and went as successful as I imagined it would be. Woke up at 5AM on a Saturday and waited for Jackie who came by at around 7AM. We loaded my car with camping gears and met up with the others at Al Lewis's apartment at around 7:45AM. And off we went, I was following Jack O'Hearn's car like a homing missile since he's got Al with him and I haven't got a clue how to get to the camp site (I almost got hit by another car in the process). I was also on a look out, making sure the bundle of camping gears on the roof of Jack's car didn't fly off (which at one point, it almost did).
Just before the camping grounds, we stopped at the nearby Shaws and picked up a few items such as meats, booze, sparklers, and other camping necessities. I think I bought more groceries for this weekend trip than I usually buy for two weeks (P.S. I'm currently sick of burgers and hotdogs.)
Anyways, we got there and it was the exact same spot as our 2004 Camping expedition. We set up camp and Jackie casually whispered, "I want to beat those guys in setting camp." So despite the army of bugs kamakazeeing our faces, we were the first to finish setting up our tent. Then we gathered wood, started a fire and sang songs. Some of us stuffed our faces with food...some of us got drunk...some of us got stoned....some of us did all of that.
On Sunday, everyone went out to explore the nearby river while I spent the day making the dreadful "Vermonster!!!!" actually, it's a unicorn... the original idea was to make a man out of sticks and burn him...like burning man, but the idea of the damn thing on fire and falling onto us didn't appeal to our liking, we decided to focus on a four-legged animal instead. As I was building the damn thing, the bugs decided to be extra relentless in their pursue to bury their eggs in my facial pores and no matter how much bug spray I doused myself with, they were not to be denied. Annoyed...I ended up making the body for the unicorn and completely skipped out on making its legs. F*ck bugs!
Everyone seemed satisfied anyways and the damn thing burned up quick. It ended so fast it's like it never existed...just like the camping trip.
Pictures of the trip can be seen here:
Camping Pics
We got back home on a Monday night and I was out on the Jersey Turnpike by Tuesday morning. The three day Jersey trip was relaxing to say the least. I was comfortable enough to go to the park and walk the dog shirtless, trying to make the sun molest the parts of my body it hasn't left its mark on yet. Most of the time I was hanging out with this little lady:
and the other times I was being bothered by this little attention sponge:
On Thursday, I was attacked by these little munchkins:
By the way, that's my hand sticking out from under that pile of kids.
Here's us apparently having a screaming contest
On Thursday Night I was on the road back to Boston. I opened my eyes at 9AM Friday morning and the blink was over.
