So, because you know I don't have an original thought in my head, I've been spurred on my Jen's post to recap our camping adventures.

-1st annual camping trip-
Location- Devil's Lake
Attendees- Brent, C-bone, Jen, Randy, Nikki, John ( not me), John ( me), and Nadine. I think that was all.
Highlights- Definetley the awesome swinging vine on the hiking trail. Also, the birth of one of our favorite sayings " Listen Ass!" C-bone being drunk and approached by a park ranger ( also, C-bone was severly underage)

-2nd annual camping trip-
Location- Devil's Lake
Attendees- Brent, Colin, Jen, Courtney, Randy, John, and Nikki. Also some visitors of Nassari ( spelling), Leah, Ashley, Lisa, and possibly others, I don't remember.
Highlights- C-bone bustin' out "This is not the crisis situation you have imagined it to be", thus making all of us repeat this ad naseum over the entire course of the trip. Colin coming out. Walking in the "fields of diarrhea" as Nikki calls them.
Not so High Lights- Drinking tickets. $240! Also, the creep park ranger handing them out being on a huge power trip. But one of my favorite memories is when we had to pour out all the alchohol and and Randy was trying to open a beer bottle by wedging it in the grate of the fire ring, thus busting the top off and the female park ranger saying "Umm.. yeah, that's exactly what I didn't want you to do". Also, getting kicked out of ALL state parks for the next 48 hours. Randy having to walk back from the park entrance at about 1 or 2 in the morning without a flash light. Let alone getting up at 6 a.m. after going to bed at 2 a.m. cleaning up and driving home. But the 6 hour camping trip was rather cool.

P.S. Is this when we meet the cool little boy in the lake? Zeko?

-3rd annual camping trip-
Location- Black Lake (hence Jen's reference to a lake the color of Iodine)
Highlights- Tbe fact that our campsite was about 10 feet from the lake. We had a boat! Most of us were 21! The awesome Dairy Queen with the cool dock on the river. C-bone and I had our boat date! The birth of the expression " Get on your knees and jiggle" Randy swimming across the lake while throwing up.
Not so highlights- The car crash involving high and drunk people. (however no arrests were made) The fact that we had to drive 6 or so hours to the campsite. That we were 30 miles from Vera, a small town with only a gas station, and we were an hour from that other town with a grocery store and a bank. The fact that we had 2 tents that did not function correctly, leading to the enourmous "storage bag", and sharing tents. Me, almost drowing, because I was too drunk to get back in the boat ( or too shnookered as my sister said), and had to be towed behind the boat.

Neither bad, nor good, - The fact that our campsite had no electricty or running water. But also, no pesky rangers. Also, the pit toilets were right across from our campsite, thus making the drunken walk there easier, and less scary.

-4th annual camping trip-
Location- Mirror Lake
Attendes- Abby, Randy, C-bone, John, Mikey P, Jen, Kyle, Nate
Highlights- Definetly the camping log. Pure and simple. So awesome! Pretty much all the highlights are summed up in that wonderful tome.

Not so highlights- Were there any?


So, we definetly have to do something special and awesome for our 5th annual camping trip to commemorate 4 years of sad choices and great memories. I way looking forward to it.

Well...I suppose....

Please excuse spelling errors, grammatical inconsistencies and the like. I have busted out the bottle of " Wild Irish Rose" and things tend to get fuzzy near the end of this post. But I have laughed out loud quite a bit!!!!!