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threadwalker) wrote2007-07-18 10:21 am
threadwalker) wrote2007-07-18 10:21 am
So good to be home
Quick, before I forget:
Camping Vacation - the plan vs the reality.
Favorite pic now a userpic (for "happy in my own world"... it's so good to be 3 yrs old and just not care what people think. She had hikers busting up and falling over with laughter. It will be a blackmail picture in about 12 years. hahaha!)
highlights to be filled in
The plan: leave Friday around 7pm, stop in Yreka, arrive at campground 3pm-ish.
The reality: leave Saturday between 10 am and 11 am. Arrive campground 8pm-9pm ish.
The plan: depart campground Tuesday night around 7pm, stop to sleep in Redding. Get home in AM.
The reality: pack truck between rainstorms on Tuesday (while tentage is mostly dry). Leave camp ground around 4:30 pm. Go visit Great Grandma at her place for a bit. Hit road and drive all night. Pull in at 3:30 am and stagger into bed.
The plan: lots of running around with kids
The reality: lots of rain, lots of sitting around, got to read a whole book (gasp! it's been ages), interspersed with a few great trips to beach while running herd on a small mob of kids. The kids were essentially self-entertaining. Little adult intervention required except to keep them out of fire-pit, etc.
The plan: early morning exercise
The reality: one 35 minute jog/run wiped out my legs on Sunday. It's Wednesday and I'm still very stiff and sore between calves and ankles. Don't recall what that bit of ligament/muscle is called, but it's not happy. (too bad I'm about to head off to gym and stretch it out and then work it out.)
The plan: eat healthy
The reality: ate relatively healthy. I threw in the towel on the s'mores and I ended up eating to stay awake on the drive home. Up 3 lb. Predicting it will be off by Sunday.
Other highlights that I need to fill in later:
1. chubby bunny: a game of marshmallows and drool
2. bare-bottom baby: coming to a photo album soon - see user picture. Our visit to the beach and ocean: we trekked through the campground, under the highway, through the wooded park and down to the beach. The kids took off shoes and splashed in the water. Littlest couldn't keep her shorts dry, so those came off. Then she soaked herself to her waist and energtically buried her lower half in sand. (sigh). Totally cute, but the underwear had to come off. So she trekked home in her t-shirt (painted by me for St. Patrick's day to say "Irish Lass") and Tinkerbell sandals. She spent the whole walk spinning and dancing and pretending to be an airplane while I followed snapping pictures as fast as I could for future blackmail material. We surprised some hikers, who then busted up laughing once they realized she was bare bottomed and not wearing sand-colored leggings. Totally prescious. I"m going to make up black-and whites to send to family this week. (snicker)
3. tide-pools
4. deer in volley ball court
On our return trek from the ocean on Tuesday Christina spotted deer in the volley ball court. It was pretty neat and the kids thought it was very exciting.
5. It's great to have time with great grandma. Lots of pictures, lots of kisses. Littlest looks like her name-sake
6. Cousins playing great. Jenna, Christina and my kids played very well together. I wish we all lived closer.
7. Rain is okay when the tent keeps it out. The nylon easy-up sunshade turned out to be a great sanity saver against the rain.
8. Monday: the car died in the park and the hubby had to go forage for a new car battery. While out, he did some hunting for dinner, too. The family was eating burgers and turkey dogs; mayo-filled macaroni and potato salads; etc. We had fillet mingon wrapped in bacon which I paired with cous cous and cauliflower. Yum. I love that man and the meat he brings home to dinner.
9. Cool new camping gizmos: dishwashing for small family; light;
It's a collapsable double dish pan. Not very big, but totally cool for small family camping. The new light has a built in fan and a setting so that it's also a night-light. Very neat. A second light that is like a snake with a sturdy base; the base is magnetic and has a C-clamp. (tho why is that hubby of mine obsessed with small portable lights?)
10. driving home all night in the freaking rain. The drive through the Siskiyous was scary. I had the death-grip on the steering wheel through Shasta - I kept expecting one of the big-rigs to topple off a bridge into the lake and somehow take us with them. feh. Scary, annoying, steering wheel gripping drive.
Camping Vacation - the plan vs the reality.
Favorite pic now a userpic (for "happy in my own world"... it's so good to be 3 yrs old and just not care what people think. She had hikers busting up and falling over with laughter. It will be a blackmail picture in about 12 years. hahaha!)
highlights to be filled in
The plan: leave Friday around 7pm, stop in Yreka, arrive at campground 3pm-ish.
The reality: leave Saturday between 10 am and 11 am. Arrive campground 8pm-9pm ish.
The plan: depart campground Tuesday night around 7pm, stop to sleep in Redding. Get home in AM.
The reality: pack truck between rainstorms on Tuesday (while tentage is mostly dry). Leave camp ground around 4:30 pm. Go visit Great Grandma at her place for a bit. Hit road and drive all night. Pull in at 3:30 am and stagger into bed.
The plan: lots of running around with kids
The reality: lots of rain, lots of sitting around, got to read a whole book (gasp! it's been ages), interspersed with a few great trips to beach while running herd on a small mob of kids. The kids were essentially self-entertaining. Little adult intervention required except to keep them out of fire-pit, etc.
The plan: early morning exercise
The reality: one 35 minute jog/run wiped out my legs on Sunday. It's Wednesday and I'm still very stiff and sore between calves and ankles. Don't recall what that bit of ligament/muscle is called, but it's not happy. (too bad I'm about to head off to gym and stretch it out and then work it out.)
The plan: eat healthy
The reality: ate relatively healthy. I threw in the towel on the s'mores and I ended up eating to stay awake on the drive home. Up 3 lb. Predicting it will be off by Sunday.
Other highlights that I need to fill in later:
1. chubby bunny: a game of marshmallows and drool
2. bare-bottom baby: coming to a photo album soon - see user picture. Our visit to the beach and ocean: we trekked through the campground, under the highway, through the wooded park and down to the beach. The kids took off shoes and splashed in the water. Littlest couldn't keep her shorts dry, so those came off. Then she soaked herself to her waist and energtically buried her lower half in sand. (sigh). Totally cute, but the underwear had to come off. So she trekked home in her t-shirt (painted by me for St. Patrick's day to say "Irish Lass") and Tinkerbell sandals. She spent the whole walk spinning and dancing and pretending to be an airplane while I followed snapping pictures as fast as I could for future blackmail material. We surprised some hikers, who then busted up laughing once they realized she was bare bottomed and not wearing sand-colored leggings. Totally prescious. I"m going to make up black-and whites to send to family this week. (snicker)
3. tide-pools
4. deer in volley ball court
On our return trek from the ocean on Tuesday Christina spotted deer in the volley ball court. It was pretty neat and the kids thought it was very exciting.
5. It's great to have time with great grandma. Lots of pictures, lots of kisses. Littlest looks like her name-sake
6. Cousins playing great. Jenna, Christina and my kids played very well together. I wish we all lived closer.
7. Rain is okay when the tent keeps it out. The nylon easy-up sunshade turned out to be a great sanity saver against the rain.
8. Monday: the car died in the park and the hubby had to go forage for a new car battery. While out, he did some hunting for dinner, too. The family was eating burgers and turkey dogs; mayo-filled macaroni and potato salads; etc. We had fillet mingon wrapped in bacon which I paired with cous cous and cauliflower. Yum. I love that man and the meat he brings home to dinner.
9. Cool new camping gizmos: dishwashing for small family; light;
It's a collapsable double dish pan. Not very big, but totally cool for small family camping. The new light has a built in fan and a setting so that it's also a night-light. Very neat. A second light that is like a snake with a sturdy base; the base is magnetic and has a C-clamp. (tho why is that hubby of mine obsessed with small portable lights?)
10. driving home all night in the freaking rain. The drive through the Siskiyous was scary. I had the death-grip on the steering wheel through Shasta - I kept expecting one of the big-rigs to topple off a bridge into the lake and somehow take us with them. feh. Scary, annoying, steering wheel gripping drive.
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I got the take-home lesson -- and the next time I found myself on a highway with semis doing the slip-and-slide (one December night on Hwy 97 in mid-Oregon) I did hang a U and go back to wait it out at the nearest motel. In that case, the idiots were trying to negotiate a steep hairpin curve on fresh snow with no chains. Slow-motion semis approaching you sideways ....
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I always like to get away from the really big trucks c'cause they make me nervous. And now I know my fears are justified.