The Big Adventure Part 2.1

For those of you who started to read this already, my apologies, but it appears that xanga does not have enough bandwidth to support the 4 slide shows I had on this post so I have to break it up into two posts.

Nite 1: I caught the sunset on my camera…finally. So in the next set of slides you’ll see that first. Then lil man and I turned in after a few hours. We had a perfect view of the moon through our tent ceiling…so I tried to snap it…of course, small digital camera versus millions of miles to the moon doesn’t really fare well.

So lil man and I are horsing around in the tent, and of course, I have to annoy him, so I just start taking shots in the dark…I caught quite a few interesting sections before I actually got all of him in the camera’s eye.

Day 2: I woke up crazy early, because as I think I mentioned previously, the stupid mattress from KMART was no good, and would not hold air. So sleep was disturbingly uncomfortable, considering (as I later discovered) we were on a rock slab with stickle burs and various wooden stickles (my word for the strange sharp wooden pieces that looked like stickle burs but were 3 times the size). I think I could take no more by about 3am.

So I got up and decided that this was the opportune time to utilize the one person bathroom they had for all adults and females of any age. Mind you, the boy’s bathroom was quite large and had 4 shower stalls, but the adults and all other children were to use this one person bathroom.

Needless to say, the women with small children were ready to stage a revolt because you could be standing in line all day just to pee. The general consensus reached was utilizing the boy’s restroom if no one was using it, and with a guard by the door as a preventative. I would have used it regardless, if I needed to. It did have a lock on the door.

But imagine my surprise when I discovered that there was a line for the bathroom at 3am in the morning, albeit, a small line…just two of us, but a line nevertheless. And the dorky dude that was using it wasn’t even from the scouts. There was a family or two camped on the other side of the bathrooms. This guy was in there for, I don’t know…two hours…just singin’ in the rain. He was completely oblivious to the fact that there were people waiting, until I finally knocked on the door.

So I got me an early shower, beating the crowds, and was sittin’ in the dining area by about 5am, just chillin’ and waitin’ for the scout leader to show up to start breakfast.

Note: I’m having to edit this post, because I see that all the pics on my slide show is not coming through. Bear with me ; part 2.2 later. Thanks.