camp-out

i had a great time at camp-out this weekend. i took my camera along and clicked away (hope i wasn’t too annoying…). highlights of the experience were:

hiking with other women and seeing this curly leaf

playing boggle and finding the word “microdot” (and yes it is a word in the scrabble dictionary!)

lavender and teal m&m’s in the trail mix

getting this great shot of mother-daughter eyes (and freckles!)

a long chat with a friend who revealed to me that she lurks on my blog and why she enjoys reading it (thanks!)

the drama of making can-can chili* in a makeshift double boiler for lack of a large, but not-too-large camp-worthy cookpot

singing and stories by the campfire

bizarre hooting of some sort of animal or bird outside our tent in the middle of the night

even more bizarre dreams (something about building a “lifelike” statue of a dragon that was 100 feet tall and needed to be built around the stair railing of the university)

perfect egg and cheese english muffins from the pudgie-pie irons for breakfast

long warm shower after we got home and the wonderful feeling of being clean again.
*a can of this, a can of that