Monday, March 28, 2011

Collapsed tents and other camping excursions

The view from our awesome campsite
 This past weekend my friends and I went camping at San Elijo State Beach, and thankfully we didn't get rained out like the forecast predicted! We got the most perfect spot right on the ocean, which was ideal for half of the people there who got up at the crack of dawn to go surfing (yet another reason why i don't surf: option a) stay in the tent and sleep for 3 more hours in the early a.m.? or b) get up in the freezing cold and get into the ice cold water just to drown in the water? i think i'll take the first option)
 
Even though i absolutely love everything about camping (i.e. the smores, sleeping bags, talking for hours about nothing and everything by the fire, sleeping in tents, never really getting totally warm, eating camp breakfast food), my most favorite moment from this past weekend was when my good friend Rachel (who we swear we're twins separated at birth) and i got into our tent and started trying to find out the latest Hollywood gossip in my People magazines because Rachel claimed that Brad and Emily from the Bachelor show broke up this past week, according to "3 sources," which i believe are the Enquirer, Hollywoodgossip.com, and other tabloids that she apparently thinks are true facts ;-), and were laughing so hard for so long about who knows what. Those are definitely my favorite moments, when you can't even put your finger on what was so great about it, but you know that it was just pure awesome.

So right after we were done looking at our magazines, the rest of our friends came into go to bed, and as we were all trying to fall asleep, i started feeling the tent walls encompass me, and sure enough, the whole tent was collapsing on us.  The tent became totally lopsided because our friend (who didn't want to admit that she was the real culprit :) was basically lying on the poles that were supposed to make it stay upright. So there we all were, in the dark, in our sleeping bags, with the tent roof that had fallen right on top of us, awesome ;-)
Alisha & Rachel
Are we playing pac man?
A very proud hamburger maker!
So purty :)
Kristi, Alisha & me
She's too adorable!
Twins!!

2 comments:

Twin said...

HAHAHAHHAH. I was laughing out loud (seriously out loud) reading your post! Such great times!! Can we have a repeat weekend of that?! Also, my sources were completely legit. I'll find 'em. :) P.S.- I didn't see your pac man pic :) :) haha. LOVED spending time with you that weekend!!

photographypaige said...

looks like you had a blast!!

Monday, March 28, 2011

Collapsed tents and other camping excursions

The view from our awesome campsite
 This past weekend my friends and I went camping at San Elijo State Beach, and thankfully we didn't get rained out like the forecast predicted! We got the most perfect spot right on the ocean, which was ideal for half of the people there who got up at the crack of dawn to go surfing (yet another reason why i don't surf: option a) stay in the tent and sleep for 3 more hours in the early a.m.? or b) get up in the freezing cold and get into the ice cold water just to drown in the water? i think i'll take the first option)
 
Even though i absolutely love everything about camping (i.e. the smores, sleeping bags, talking for hours about nothing and everything by the fire, sleeping in tents, never really getting totally warm, eating camp breakfast food), my most favorite moment from this past weekend was when my good friend Rachel (who we swear we're twins separated at birth) and i got into our tent and started trying to find out the latest Hollywood gossip in my People magazines because Rachel claimed that Brad and Emily from the Bachelor show broke up this past week, according to "3 sources," which i believe are the Enquirer, Hollywoodgossip.com, and other tabloids that she apparently thinks are true facts ;-), and were laughing so hard for so long about who knows what. Those are definitely my favorite moments, when you can't even put your finger on what was so great about it, but you know that it was just pure awesome.

So right after we were done looking at our magazines, the rest of our friends came into go to bed, and as we were all trying to fall asleep, i started feeling the tent walls encompass me, and sure enough, the whole tent was collapsing on us.  The tent became totally lopsided because our friend (who didn't want to admit that she was the real culprit :) was basically lying on the poles that were supposed to make it stay upright. So there we all were, in the dark, in our sleeping bags, with the tent roof that had fallen right on top of us, awesome ;-)
Alisha & Rachel
Are we playing pac man?
A very proud hamburger maker!
So purty :)
Kristi, Alisha & me
She's too adorable!
Twins!!

2 comments:

Twin said...

HAHAHAHHAH. I was laughing out loud (seriously out loud) reading your post! Such great times!! Can we have a repeat weekend of that?! Also, my sources were completely legit. I'll find 'em. :) P.S.- I didn't see your pac man pic :) :) haha. LOVED spending time with you that weekend!!

photographypaige said...

looks like you had a blast!!