A Camping Story – Part Deux

The following pictures were taken on Day 2 of our camping trip.

I’ll skip all the sappy stories and just write captions below the photos. I think we went hiking on this trail at 7am that morning.

The girl in the red shirt we’ll call Medusa E. I made up her code name from a ‘Rap Star Name Generator’ online. I never got a good picture of her, for some reason the girls didn’t throw themselves in front of my camera as much as the guys did. You also won’t find one single picture of me for the entire week either. I like to call it being humble.

But she made the BEST cowboy caviar for camp. I’ll have to do a post on it this week. It’s basically a salsa with beans and it’s highly addictive. Really. After she left camp the next day, I ate it with strips of bacon and tortilla chips. It just made everything taste better.

This is what is known as the Blair Witch cabin. I guess some kids carved some creepy pictures on the logs in the inside of the structure and the name was born.

Chris was lookin extra creepy that day.

 

Then again…maybe he IS creepy lookin?

 

A bunch of us took flashlights and hiked this trail late one night. So this looks really scary when pitch black.

Not really pitch black, since we had flashlights…

 

  

I’m not totally sure what kinds of mushrooms these are, but to me, they look like what the Chinese call ‘wood ears’. Can anyone tell me what these are?

Of course, after the vacation when I told my parents I might’ve seen ‘wood ears’, they freaked out and told me NEVER eat anything I find in a forest.

I told them I ate every single mushroom I found in the forest that day, some moss growing on a rock, PLUS all the wild berries I could find. Really.

 

These mushrooms looked cool too. Once again I don’t know what they are, and I’m too lazy to google them. So a big thanks to anyone able to identify them. Not that the knowledge would be advantageous to have in the future. Unless I was lost in the woods for days and had to identify poisonous and non-poisonous mushrooms.

Moving on….

I like this picture.

 

This is a blurry picture of a bone we found. I don’t know what kind of bone it is. But if I would have to make an educated guess based on various scary movies I’ve seen I would say this is a human bone. I’m probably 99% wrong, but it’s still way cooler than saying it’s an ordinary dinosaur bone. I mean, dinosaur bones aren’t THAT small.

Actually, maybe a dinosaur bone would be cooler. But a human bone would be scarier.

 

This is my husband Chris doing his victory pose. Victory over what, I honestly don’t know.

The following 2 photos accurately describe these 2 brothers. And while they are both wonderful boys, they are COMPETITIVE BOYS!!!

Competititve meaning, everything is and always will be a contest. All in good fun though. At least, I think.

So the competition today is ‘who can stand on a fallen tree contest’. I don’t know who won, because it’s not even a real competition.

I think they just love the camera.

This is my brother-in-law. When I asked everyone to pick a code name for my blog, he of course picked Superstud. Though I would prefer that he wouldn’t force me to refer to him as Superstud, I did pretty much ask for it.

After the hike, we all went to the rec center to play Catch that giant flying saucer. Really, that thing was rediculously enormous.

The guy in the blue shirt we’ll call DJ-Spinner. He is Medusa E.’s husband. We wished they could’ve stayed longer at camp, but they had to leave early. Missed out on some fun kickball games kayaking, and goofy victory dances.

 

My Mother-in-Law thought this would be a cool pic. It was the shadows of the leaves over the tarp by the camper. It did make a cool pattern!

This is a very cliche picture of a stream gently flowing over rocks. VERY cliche. After 9 years I realized I had 50,375 images with the same theme.

 

This is a classic picture of the Letchworth Gorge with Railroad Bridge. You’ll probably notice the same photo perspective on various websites describing the park.

 

I never really understood the point of these binocular thingys at scenic points. I like the overall image of things. I don’t prefer to see mist up close. But that’s just me…

Do you recognize this image? Check out my Photography Stuff  page. I still like my black and white image alot better. 

I’m going to start creating a theme album called Chris doing things with other things. Very general sounding theme, but endless possibilities. Here, we wanted him to ‘taste the rainbow’. It looks more like he’s eating the rainbow.

This is The Irish Pirate, Superstud’s fiancee. She comments sometimes on my blog. She wanted to get in on the tasting the rainbow action. But like she asked, how do you look like you’re TASTING the rainbow? It’s more like licking the rainbow!

This is Chris…with his bottom…and the rainbow….well, you can guess what we were trying to do.

Chris pinching the rainbow. So cliche. The pinching thing I mean.

Just another waterfall picture with a giant rainbow. Enough with the rainbows!

A nice father and sons moment. Awww.

These are my wonderful in-laws. We’ll call them B.B. Pain and Sass Katt. The rap star name generator is giving me weird names, I know. It was their wedding anniversary that day!

Somebody dared Superstud to put his hand into a hole in the tree. And of course he did. I don’t know what they expected him to find though…a chipmunk? Squirrel?

Nothing was in there. Whew!

Could you have picked a more modest name, Superstud? Augh. I’ll just call you SS from now on.

Chris is doing things with other things! This time, with the jagged edge of a tree trunk. It looks like it hurts really bad, except you can see the difference in depth of field. Doh!

This special sign (the number one) was really sentimental to DJ Spinner. It brought tears to our eyes as he read it to us. “One…one….one….”

Inside joke.

Chris unintentionally (at least, I think unintentionally) started the second Who Can Stand On A Fallen Tree Contest.

I really don’t know the allure of climbing on a fallen tree, but to these guys, it’s pretty damn alluring. I wish I had a good photo of all the girls standing in the background, rolling their eyes.

After Chris got up there, I took a picture of him standing proudly. Two seconds later, SS and my FIL got up there, and Chris was pushed to the side, behind a tree.

Okay, not really pushed, but he had to share the glory with the other guys, hence the sad pouty lips and slumped shoulders.

I don’t feel sorry for you Chris, but I am laughing at you.

This was my all-time favorite photo of the week. I love Chris’s expression. And the Loser! sign. As the other guys are smiling proudly. It’s hilarious to me.

Ok, I’m consolidating my remaining pictures of Camp in one last post later. I know the family is enjoying the special Camp section of my blog now. Even though it has nothing to do with food.