Saturday, June 2, 2007

Our 8 Hour Camping Adventure

So we set out yesterday and packed some pretty crazy hiking backpacks full of gear and headed out to hike a little ways to this lake that Jan has gone hunting around, said it was beautiful. So we packed our massive hiking backpacks and headed out.

On the way out the door I thought... you know with my luck lately, I am just for the heck of it gonna grab another pair of socks ( total of 3 ) and another pair of underwear. You never know...

We hike through the swamp, wearing these HOT and SEXY green rubber boots to this beautiful lake! A sandy beach and everything!

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Well being in the middle of no where I went into the bushes to go tinklewater... as I am squatting so beautifully a squirrel jumps down from a tree, gives me a heartattack and I ended up peeing ALL down my right leg, my jeans, my sock, my shoe, my underwear... you name it, I squirted it. SERIOUSLY. I come walking back to the tent and Will was laughing so hard.

Well I changed and decided I was gonna try some fishing since they were jumping like crazy. To your surprise, I caught about a 10lb pike fish. Just about the ugliest fish ever and apparently horrid to eat because it has so many bones. They call it "trash" fish. But still, I reeled that sucker in!

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Apparently I had to take a picture with it of me holding it. YEAH RIGHT!
Couldn't this do??

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No, I have to HOLD it... so after about 3 minutes of squealing like a girl I get down and go to grab the fish when it started FLOPPING AROUND and its mouth snapped so close to my HAND!!! I dropped that sucker so fast and kicked it!!!! Scared the POOP out of me!!! Dumb fish.

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So William killed the fish for me and 20 minutes later I finally get the courage up to touch the fish and hold it... okay listen I'm not some girly girl that squirms and squeals but I'm sorry, I ain't touchin no fish. This has got to be by far the most ATTRACTIVE picture of me!!!!

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William opted this way to show off my prize... SICK.

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Well after we fished we ate dinner over the fire when all the sudden every boat in all of Sweden started driving around on this lake!!! We thought we were all alone, waiting for more of Will's friends to show up, when all these people start driving around on the lake. Hummm that's fun camping... a boat even drove up to the shore to see what we were up to(?!!). Two people came out by us fishing, later on a 4-wheeler came out of the woods... we decided this was not much fun... when you camp you wanna be alone ... not in the vacation spot of the century! So after 8 hours we packed up our stuff and went home... William arrived home in the clothes he left in, I came pack with a pile of dirty clothes...... I'm still shaking my head!

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We arrived back home around midnight when Will's father looked at us like we were crazy, we did say we were going over night... it was now past 12:01... so we did sort of go overnight...

This picture, it's my favorite of them all...

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Too bad it was so crowded there!

I felt like I was in Troop Beverly Hills... where the girls get their camping badge by staying in the Beverly Hills Hotel after 5 minutes of being in the woods!

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1 comment:

Susan said...

Amelia, I love the picture of you holding the fish. Your expression is priceless. That is a photo that should be framed and hung in your bedroom.