The Numbers

My Memorial Day Weekend Camping Trip by the numbers.

Trip goers: 4 - (Amy, Tara, Brenna and I)

Cars packed to the brim with camping gear: 1

Snakes seen: 1

Spiders seen: 6,873

Times Heather freaked out when she thought a spider was on her: 1

Times Heather freaked out when she thought a spider was on her but it was actually a grasshopper: 1

Miles hiked: A lot

Hours spent fishing: 4

Places around the lake that Heather went to fish: 10

Fish caught: 0

Fish caught by a 3-year-old boy near Heather in only five minutes: 1

Rainstorms: 1

Tents: 2

Leaking tents: 1

Loud barking dogs near our campsite: 34

Times Heather pointed out something about birds in a hugely nerdy manner: 5

Naps taken by Amy: At least 6

Kayaks rented: 3

Rocks climbed: 74

Human-Bear Interactions: 0

Signs seen about human-bear interaction: 3

Jokes made about human-bear interaction: 35

Giant logs carried back to campsite for burning: 2

Number of giant logs burned: 1/2

Bags of chips consumed: 2

Ears of corn offered to us by neighbors: 5

Karaoke songs sung by Amy and Heather before a state park audience: 1

Times Tara almost peed her pants laughing at kids singing grown-up karaoke songs: 1

Whoo, what a weekend! We had a great time, really. The weather was gorgeous and so was the state park. I loves me some camping and I'm glad Tara and Brenna thought us cool enough to spend another bit of vacation time with us.

I also finished book #19 of my "Get Off Your Lazy Ass and Read" campaign. I think since my last update on the reading campaign I've read two more Steinbeck books. What can I say, I love him. He's a great writer. I've also now read "Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass," which was sad but also really good.

I don't have time to write about it in this update, but I will soon have a whole other post about the craziness that's happened on our street in the past few weeks. It's like a big episode of COPS. Seriously. For a preview - just think of this: People attacking each other and a car with a hammer, and then a big explosion and fire four houses down from us. Don't worry, we're fine - we just can't wait til the idiot neighbors four homes down from us are finally evicted on Thursday.