Ah, May long camping.. Katie and I left a day early because we were rather fed up with being cold and wet the whole time, plus we were both feeling kinda sick. Me because I was sick before we'd even left, Katie because she'd had too much to drink last night. Plus she's banged her head on something sometime last night and that was bothering her. So we left and everyone else is still there. Whether or not they STAY there is yet to be seen, because it's going to be -1 in Calgary tonight, so REALLY cold at mclean. Either way I'm rather glad to be home.

It was actually really nice when we got there, but then went rather downhill from there. Yesterday it snowed CONSTANTLY! And I was super wet. Then I finally gave up trying to wear my winter coat, put something less warm on, but could then fit my raincoat overtop, and then I was nice and toasty. Until my gloves got wet, then it went back to sucking again.

The first day there we didn't have a fire for a long time, but that was because nobody had brought wood (there was no room for it) so we finally got a teeny-weeny little fire started using wet wood (quite difficult, I must tell you. A lot of my school notes that I didn't need were burnt in the process. Speaking of which, I forgot there.... Oh well.). So then after we got our fire started, Corey and his friends, who had been there earlier and then left, came back and brought wood with them, so then we were good. There was actually one point in the weekend where I was so warm and dry that I couldn't stand near the fire because it was TOO hot. That was nice. :>

So, let's see, mclean creek highlights.. ALL THE MUD! When we got there, our campsite was sitting next to a big green field. When we left, the field had turned into 6 inches of MUD. You should have seen some of the trucks that were bogging in there. Oh man, SO DIRTY! It was awesome. I'd wanted my car to come back entirely brown, but when I was there, I really didn't feel like doing any off roading, so it's only a little bit dirty. Plus all the rain and snow washed a lot of the mud off. :< I was in a really weird mood all weekend. It was an entirely nutral mood. Very strange, I was neither happy nor sad, and couldn't really care about anything. All I wanted to do was sit by the fire in a semi conscious state and be warm. It was so weird, and annoying.. And the mood only left me when Katie and I started packing up and then I was all energized and happy because I knew we were going home and whatnot.

And sometime around 5am the first morning there, the tarp over our tent collapsed on top of us. And it was weird because I knew what was going to happen before it did, because I was dreaming and in my dream I was in a huge room and the ceiling was starting to collapse on me, and so right when the first part of the ceiling came down, the tarp hit the tent. By that time I was still partly in the dream and partly myself, and in my dream I threw my hands over my head and I actually did that in real life too and got all caught up in my sleeping bag and whatnot. So then we fixed it the next morning and it was all good after that.

At the start of the trip we actually had a tarp city. It was awesome, because all 6 of the tarps or so were all connected and you could stand up and walk from one to the next and everything. Then it started to snow and all the tarps got weighed down and then we had to add all sorts of extra lines and ropes to hold them up and a bunch were being held up with big sticks, so then it was more of a droopy sort of maze. By the time Katie and I left, it was impossible to walk from one to the next because there were SO MANY ropes everywhere plus Rover (Jen's 1972 land rover) was actually holding up about three different tarps. One tarp wasn't really held up at all, and it was just lying overtop of this one guy's tent, but that's because he'd set up the whole affair while he was drunk and stoned and I'm ridiculously surprised that the tent was still standing in the morning. Actually the night he slept in it, I don't think he had a tarp over it. He put the tarp over it later and it became a Stuff Tent, and then he went and slept in the trunk of one of the cars or something (the car was a hatchback).

Anyway, I'm sure I was going to say something else that was wonderful and fantastic about the whole weekend, but I can't think of it so I'm just going to go.

And Cait.... Seeing as you are the ONLY person who still reads this.... LEAVE ME A COMMENT PLEASE!!!!!