Happy Early Weekend!

[Virgo Nightingale]

I'm off camping this weekend, so I will be missing the usual Friday festivities... :(

Hope everyone's weekend is a good one! I will certainly try, not easy with a boyfriend who hates camping and the threat of rain, but I'll certainly make the best of it. Wish me luck!

Catch y'all again on Tuesday.... :)

[cornfed]

Have fun!! The best thing about camping for me is the hot bath I get to take when I get back home!!

[CamarotaDesign]

Have a good time camping Virgo, I'm sure some pancakes for breakfast will make your boyfriend happy!

[urstwile]

Have a good time camping Virgo, I'm sure some pancakes for breakfast will make your boyfriend happy!
That didn't take long, now did it. :D

Have a great time, Virgo!

[budafist]

Pancakes or PANCAKES for breakfast?

Have fun in the wilderness girl!

[carter the artist]

Have fun!! The best thing about camping for me is the hot bath I get to take when I get back home!!

God that was the best thing in the army. After being in the field for a couple weeks without a shower... it was the best thing next to the first beer.

[morea]

have fun Virgo!

[Exodus]

woohoo! Have fun camping!

[tuliptree]

Hope you have a great time!!!! :)

[Red Kittie Kat]

Have a great time Virgo!!http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/RedKittieKat/smilies/blobflower.gif

[Virgo Nightingale]

So I'm back at work (as you can tell since I'm here). Camping went okay. It was actually part of Mountain Jam (http://www.mountainjam.com), a music festival on Hunter Mountain in NY.

Let me pre-empt my description by saying that my bf HATES camping – the reason my bf and I were going was because he called me one morning at 2:30 telling me to buy tickets for this thing NOW because he'd heard Trey Anastasio was supposed to play with Phil Lesh (he later found out he'd been misinformed :rolleyes:). He tried to weasel his way out of going, but I said hey, it's your fault – you're the one who woke me up at 2:30 in the morning to get these tickets though you knew there would be camping involved, you moron.

So anyway...

The camping fields were not in the same place you parked your car – in other words: you park your car then haul all your sh!t up the hill to your campsite. Not fun, especially when you're both out of shape and your bf has asthma.

Then, let's not forget where this festival is: a ski resort. In other words, camping on the side of a hill. At night we would both slide downhill on the bed, while the bed slid downhill within the tent. Made for rough sleeping.

Then, let's not forget about the rain. The first day was nice but rained a tiny bit in the evening; next morning was hot and sunny, but there was a nice torrential downpour while we were in the concert grounds watching Umphrey's McGee then there were showers here and there the rest of the night; Sunday rained all day, sometimes torrential storms during the night; Monday rained all morning, making tearing down not-so-fun. There was so much water by the end of the weekend, we literally had rivers flowing through our campsite. This was the only good thing about camping on a slope: the water travelled elsewhere instead of gathering right under our tent. There was deep mud in several places between our camp and wherever we might have to go. My bf had to throw out his shoes because they got so muddy and wet and nasty. There were flooded abandoned tents EVERYWHERE by the time we left.

The good: we still had a reasonably good time. Knowing my bf's concerns with the whole camping thing, I went out of my way to try and bring anything I could to make his weekend more comfortable (including a camp percolator so he'd have real brewed coffee in the mornings, good ponchos to protect us from the rain and a small generator so he could charge his cell phone or use his nebulizer if he had serious asthma problems). We didn't feel the need to see every single band playing, but our campsite was close enough to the concert grounds that we could still hear everything quite well. My bf still had a good time listening to the music and hanging out and getting drunk and such with our group of friends despite the rain and the *gasp* camping....

My bf says that though he had a reasonable time, he still hated the camping part of it and will never ever go again. He said next time he suggests going to anything that involves camping to punch him really hard. Gotta knock some sense into him somehow. ;)

[Typically]

haha well at least you didn't get washed down hill with the rain =] sounds like it would have been a lot better without the rain. so did u have a good time? it seems like you were worried more about your bf then yourself

[Virgo Nightingale]

I was more worried about him than myself. If he had a bad time, he would have flipped out and wanted to go home and thus brought me down. I've been camping (as in real backpacking camping) enough times to know how to be prepared and deal with what mother nature might throw your way. I had a pretty good time. Would have been much better if it hadn't rained. Though the heat we had Saturday morning wouldn't have been all that much fun if it had lasted all weekend.

[urstwile]

Wow Virgo, well that sounds like quite the ordeal, especially since your boyfriend went in already hating camping, and then to have all that to deal with on top of that!

[budafist]

Did everyone camp on a hill or just some of the people. It sounds like the orgainsers need a kick in the nuts for designating a hill for the camp site. Surely the carpark would have been a much better alternative!

I actually like camping. I never used, but these days we go well prepared and we have a fantastic airbed. By these days I mean I got about once a year - over summer when things are dry.

[Ned]

Pancakes or PANCAKES for breakfast?
I saw that one coming... :D

[CamarotaDesign]

Hey sounds like it was allright Virgo. Funny story to tell us at least. I'm sure the place was very smoke friendly too, right?

[frankster]

Last festivals I went to were Glastonbury 1997 and 1998. Christ on a bike they were wet! I just ate little bits of paper with nice pictures of wizards printed on them that the nice people in the next tent over provided, until the mud went green.

Alas I am older and more responsible now. In some ways this is good. I no longer find myself mostly naked in a feild with carpet burns on my face and a plastic thundercats sword.

We all grow up I suppose.

[budafist]

Those little bits of paper probably saved your life!

[urstwile]

Last festivals I went to were Glastonbury 1997 and 1998. Christ on a bike they were wet! I just ate little bits of paper with nice pictures of wizards printed on them that the nice people in the next tent over provided, until the mud went green.

Alas I am older and more responsible now. In some ways this is good. I no longer find myself mostly naked in a feild with carpet burns on my face and a plastic thundercats sword.

We all grow up I suppose.
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[Virgo Nightingale]

Well, it was most certainly smoke-friendly... ;) There were also many of those little bits of paper around (as well as rolls, mollies, shrooms... probably other things that have since become popular at these things whose trade names I don't recognize yet). I'm too old for that crap now, though I've certainly had my share of those bits of paper at past festivals...

[budafist]

A few months ago I went to an art exhibition and they had these large sheets of printed paper that were perforated in grids. They were framed, but if you're like us (with some imagination) you could tell that when those sheets were torn up along the perfs, they would become those little bits of paper that is so popular with some folk.

The description included: "Printed on Acid free paper" :D

[Typically]

haha that's awesome i'd buy something like that. my mom might freak out but it'd be cool to have hanging on the wall.

[budafist]

Hmm.....I wonder if I had something like that on the wall, how long before someone took it out of the frame and gave it a big lick?