another summer that is.

Can you believe it’s September?  Where did summer go?  I was going to stay busy all summer but here it is, September 2 and I just got back from my first fun trip.  :(  But, at least I got one in and I have another planned…assuming I didn’t screw up the passport problem.  Grrrr…..

My brother and his family and some of our friends planned a camping trip for this past weekend.  We were first going to go up Friday morning.  Then it got changed to Thursday afternoon.  Then Wednesday late afternoon I found out we were leaving bright and early Thursday morning.  Uh, can you say Freaked Out Lanel?  That was me, I had a few hours to pack and finalize plans for someone to check on Jeeves.

My Jeeves plans unraveled before my eyes but at the last minute I asked my neighbor to check on him.  She happily agreed so I was relieved.  I did the best packing job I could do in a couple hours time when my brain was in a panic.  Unfortunately, as you’ll read, my packing job wasn’t as great as I’d hoped.

I put out all my “I’m gone so leave me a message” messages and off we went at 9AM Thursday morning.  Now, can I just tell you that I honestly can not remember the last time I had a no phone/no e-mail/no way for anyone from the outside world to contact me vacation.  How sad is that?  But, I DID IT!  :)  I even survived it.  I even had fun, for the most part.  LOL

So, we got to this remote camping spot along the St. Joe river around noon on Thursday.  When I say remote, I mean, the closest somewhat populated town (I think it’s a town) has 400 residents.  And that was about 20 miles away from where we were.  So, we got to this camping spot and someone had set tents up to “reserve” the upper part so we too the lower part.  It was actually really nice because we were right on the river and all we could hear was the rush of the river from our camp.  It was AWESOME.  Late Thursday the other campers showed up and they seemed nice enough.

Thursday and Friday we hung out around camp and at the beach.  My niece, nephew and I explored some “secret paths” and took walks up the river with her grandma.  My  brother and sister-in-law fly fished.  Late Friday our friends started arriving.  Sounds fun, right?  Well, I forgot to mention the weather.  I think the high was about 55 the entire weekend.  That wouldn’t have been a problem if I’d brought more than one sweatshirt and maybe some thermals to wear under the one pair of jeans I brought.  But, no, I got to be cold.  Seriously, I don’t know why I was so cold all weekend but I was FREEZING.

Saturday we got to “meet” the neighbor campers when they took their horses down to the river for water and left a trail of horse poop through our camp and all over the beach.  Yes, you read that right horse poop everywhere.  Which wouldn’t have been too gross if they’d picked it up but of course they didn’t.

The hunters didn’t have much success with their elk hunting but I guess they had fun.  All I know is that they STUNK.  (Which, if you ask me, is why they DIDN’T find any elk.)  Saturday I attempted to fish (but don’t tell anyone because I kind of wasn’t supposed to) and actually had a lot of fun doing it.  :)  Sunday was still cold but I got to take a shower so it was a great day.  LOL  Monday we left to come home.  The weekend went by way too fast.

But, assuming my passport comes in time I have another trip planned for the end of September.  WooHoo!!  Which will be really nice because as I’m looking out my window all I see is grey yuckiness.  I guess fall is coming early.  Sigh.

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