Camping trip: Part 1

We got together a group camping trip at Jordan Lake this past weekend, with us, the M's, the J's and Jess and Marck. (Some others were invited, but they couldn't make it.......)

At first we had a bit of difficulty with our campsite. We thought at first that we needed to stop at a separate ranger station, but after a call to Mrs. M, determined that we should just go on to the actual campsite and there would be a way to register our site there. Jess was waiting at the separate ranger station, so we called her and she headed over to Vista Point a few minutes behind us.

We got to Vista Point and told the guy at the booth that we wanted a group campsite, and he asked for our reservation. "We called twice and were informed that it is first-come, first-serve," my mom replied. The guy told us that that's true for individual sites, but you can and should make reservations for group sites, and that all their group sites were full. He called Crosswinds for us and found that they had some duplex sites available, which should be big enough for our not-so-big group.

We went over to Crosswinds and spent a while trying to pick a site, since all the sites on the water were already taken. We finally picked one, and Jess and Marck arrived. Jess, Marck and I pitched 2 of the tents with little-to-no help from anyone until the J's arrived. Nathan very obligingly hammered in stakes for us while we kicked back.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on what you want to read) I can't give a very detailed account of everything that we did after that, because I was tired. I know that we went down to the beach to watch the sunset. And I got some pictures.


Then we played Apples to Apples and Hearts before supper. We had hotdogs cooked on the campfire, and s'mores. Then we brushed our teeth and went to bed.

~Lizzie