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<\/p>\ni 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:<\/p>\n
hiking with other women and seeing this curly leaf<\/p>\n
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playing boggle and finding the word “microdot” (and yes it is a word in the scrabble dictionary!)<\/p>\n
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lavender and teal m&m’s in the trail mix<\/p>\n
getting this great shot of mother-daughter eyes (and freckles!)<\/p>\n
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a long chat with a friend who revealed to me that she lurks on my blog and why she enjoys reading it (thanks!)<\/p>\n
the drama of making can-can chili* in a makeshift double boiler for lack of a large, but not-too-large camp-worthy cookpot<\/p>\n
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singing and stories by the campfire<\/p>\n
bizarre hooting of some sort of animal or bird outside our tent in the middle of the night<\/p>\n
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)<\/p>\n
perfect egg and cheese english muffins from the pudgie-pie irons for breakfast<\/p>\n
long warm shower after we got home and the wonderful feeling of being clean again.
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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 … Continue reading