Camping

So the first camping trip of the season was last weekend. It was not planned much. We left town at around 7:30pm and we arrived after dark to our campsite. The campsite was on route to where we really wanted to be which was at Chehalis lake. Apparently the road was washed out plus it was really dark so we decided to camp along the way. In the morning we were all setup and didn't feel like moving. It turned out to be a pretty sweet spot.


There was a nice hill around the place where we could throw frisbees, beach balls, softballs and baseballs...oh and lots of rocks. None of them ended up hitting Rob's truck luckily.


We also went on a few hikes and discovered that we were at the base of a giant tree planter's block (plot of land where they plant new trees). Because that trees weren't very old, we could see all the way to the top of the block. I thought it might be a good idea to hike up to it and get a view, so the next day Greg, Gordo and I made the trek. It took really long because of massive underbrush but it was a really good expedition. You see there was no trail, so it goes beyond the word 'hike'.


We came down from the block by going around the edge in the older growth forest which had very little underbrush. Back near camp we found the other three chopping a log to be able to move it out of the way. Oh, and Rob had chopped his arm with the hatchet.


We also played a lot of board/card games well camping because it rained a lot. We played risk more than one night well huddled under the tarp hanging off the back of Rob's truck.


One night we struggled to find dry pieces of wood everywhere we could to actually make a decent fire to roast marshmallows. It was quite the activity, searching under rocks and large piles of wood using a flashlight. Pulling bark off the underside of logs.

Hike/Relay/Playland Weekend

So last weekend was pretty exhausting and awesome. It started with a hike way over in Lynn Headwaters park in north Van. It was a work retreat thing with a bbq following except that Sara and I were going to have to take off from the place before the bbq. I invited Sara because the idea was that employees could bring their family or friends along, but I guess as it was Friday afternoon lots of people were busy. As it turned out, Sara was the only non-employee there!



One of my coworkers, Simon was nice enough to give Sara and I a ride to the seabus on his way home. He has since flown back to the UK where he is from and I don't know if I'll ever see him again. Sara had never taken the seabus although it's not exactly that exciting.

So then we made it to the Relay for Life just a little bit late. It turned out the ceremonies started at 7pm, not the actually walking/running. This time around was much different than last year. We were all dressed up as Justice League super heroes! I was the Green Lantern and Sara came as Gypsy. It was a lot of fun but quite exhausting after the hike. Sara and I took a nap or two part way through. Around midnight we did a lap around the track in formation with the Justice League theme song playing from a speaker wheeled behind us. It was pretty awesome. This is probably how we won the most spirit and best costumes awards. What we got from it was a bunch of old girly bath and hair products though. We divided these up at the breakfast table the next morning. Oh yes, and when we were doing our final lap the sprinklers came on and started soaking our packed up gear so we had to rescue it.
On Saturday Sara and I chilled and recuperated and then on Sunday we headed out to Playland after buying season passes. We figure that we'll go there a bunch of times this summer (mostly on weekdays when it won't be as busy). This time was a lot of fun, because although it was the weekend it was quite cloudy and looked like it was going to rain. This meant super short (almost non-existant) line up for most of the rides. We would get off one and walk right on to the next one. It was pretty awesome. Afterward Sara took me out to Eastside Mario's. That is one awesome restaurant. Endless bread and salad or soup with your pasta. Yummy.

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