This week the school went camping at Backbone State Park. We loaded up the bus with all our camping equipment before the 4th of July weekend. I missed a day of camping because of doctors appointments. They had to put up the tents with their shades on as well as walk the trail with their shades on and visit Niagara Cave in Minnesota, also with the shades on. I missed all three of those ventures.
When I arrived on Tuesday afternoon I got to cook using my shades. First I scrubbed some potatoes, cleaned them up, and then cut them in bite size chunks. Then I fried them on a huge griddle with butter and onions. Then my partner for making dinner grilled some brats and hot dogs. By the time we ate, which was about 8:00, everybody was starved. Off came the shades. They scarfed up the potatoes and brats and hot dogs. For dessert we made s'mores. Then we sat around the fire and listened to one of the students play guitar. We made our own lyrics to "Sweet Home Alabama." The young kids were getting a little loud and fairly graphic.
After a few more songs we heard thunder in the distance. We called a few people to check on the weather for us, and decided to slip into the tents early. Soon after we were in our sleeping bags it started to rain. Through the night it rained on and off.
We woke up to a steady rainfall and decided against making breakfast at the campsite. We loaded up the bus with our tents and other camping gear and headed back to Des Moines, stopping in Oelwein to eat breakfast at McDonald's. We arrived in Des Moines to partly cloudy skies and took out all our camping gear and tents and hung everything up that was wet in the shop class. No shades today at all.
Thursday morning, after everything has dried, we'll bag up everything and put it in the storage room, ready for the next camping trip. A couple of incidents at the campsite included an encounter with a couple of hungry raccoons and a waterlogged guitar. I'll write about those in my next entry. More later.
(Here you go, Checker... and thanks for reading my blog, Chad.)
That S'more looks tasty! Sounds like a fun time at the campsite. I would be a little nervous with a bunch of guys in shades around a campfire. How did you check to see if the potatoes were cooked. I saw a recipe in a magazine to make french toast on the grill. Bee
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