Ahhh. Camping at Dustin's farm in Olds. Twas good fun. Twas good fun indeed. Chester was born there.. I will tell you about Chester. (Muahahaha...)

Chester is a cow, but not only is he a cow (he's a gender confused cow...) he is a cow that produces nacho cheese rather than milk, in four different flavours no less! You see, he is bright school bus yellow with black legs and has a cheese chudder (not an udder). Since he has four stomachs and four nipples on his udder, he produces four different flavours of nacho cheese. Mild, medium, hot and dangerously cheesy. In order to be able to produce nacho cheese, Chester eats nothing but beer and peppers (beer to ferment the milk into cheese and peppers to make it spicy). Then to make it actually nacho cheese, his udder is strapped into one of those 80's flab-o-matics. The ones where it's got the rubber band type dealy that goes around your waist and then vibrates like mad. Only it goes around his udder instead.

We even have a tongue twister (which you must be able to say ten times fast before you can join Campus Crusade...) and it goes like this. Chester the chooing cheese cow from Cholula chews corona and chilies with his Chilean chinchilla-chihuahua. The Chilean chinchilla-chihuahua is Chester's sidekick. Now, Chester cannot speak, he can only choo (instead of mooing) and the chinchilla-chihuahua interprets for Chester. Chester also has an accompanying Mariachi band led by Steve (someone from Campus Crusade). Chester also has a love interest name Chilayla (rather than just Layla).

We've got a skit worked out too. It starts out with an Italian boy sitting at a table with a plate of nachos, but no cheese on his nachos. So he says, in his Italian accent, "Oh! I have-a no cheese-e for-a my-a nachos!". Then the mariachi band is cued and starts playing Zorro music and in comes Chester and his Chilean chinchilla-chihuahua. "Choooo!" says Chester. "Chester the cheese cow to the rescue!" interprets the chinchilla-chihuahua. Then Chester goes over to the table and plops his chudder next to the cheeseless Italian and asks him which flavour he would like, then squirts some nacho cheese onto the nachos (this is the part where everyone starts getting a little grossed out with our skit...).

We're going to be sponsored by Trident (chew chew) and the Dairy Board (of course). And there you have Chester the Chooing Cheese Cow.

That one took probably about an hour and a half to cook up and even then, we kept adding little bits here and there. The whole thing came about because someone (Craig I think) was in a debate once at school where the topic was should cows be genetically engineered to produce chocolate milk instead of regular milk. And then it progressed from chocolate milk to nacho cheese. And Chester was born. Oh yes! And Chester is now going to be Campus Crusade's mascot (Chester the Cheese Cow... CCC... Campus Crusade for Christ... CCC...) and he will be played by Taryn (who is very tall and not at all gender confused. At least, I don't think he is..) The Chilean chincilla-chihuahua will be played either by Laura (Taryn's girlfriend) or by Mariana (who is actually Chilean). And the chinchilla chihuahua has a high squeekyish voice with a Mexican accent. Chester is from Mexico.

Other than that, we played with guns this weekend. I shot a .22, a bow and arrow and a shotgun. :> I like the .22 best though because the shotgun has a LOT of kickback, and it kinda hurt a wee bit, and the bow is meant for someone who is 6 feet tall, so in order to have the bow pulled back as far as it needs to be, my one arm is waaaaaaaaay behind me and in that position, I'm not strong enough to hold the bow like that for very long. Long enough to shoot one arrow though! Also the sights that you look through are waaaay past my eyes, so I was shooting blind basically. With the .22 I hit a pop can 6 out of 10 times. I probably would have done better, but the first bunch I only had one eye open, but for the last half of my shots I had both eyes open and just got used to being able to see two completely different things at once and then I hit a can pretty much every shot. Craig was wickedly good with the bow though, and he's never shot one before. Every arrow he shot was within a 2 inch circle sorta thing. It was crazy. A couple times arrows he shot actually hit the other arrow already stuck into the target (a flap of cardboard). Crazy. He is Robin Hood.

I drove Craig both ways actually, and we'd entered into planning a little surprise for when we got there. We couldn't do it until later though because we decided that no one would be outside when we got there (there was only two people there at all when we got there) but we were both dressed up as mafia/gangster type people and when everyone was busy shooting guns we took the roof off my car and drove behind the barn where everyone was. Craig was standing up through the roof with his elastic band shooting rifle. Then I revved the engine up really high and we both jumped out and went after Dustin and shot him several times. It was so much fun but sooooooo hot in a trench coat. Before we got there though we stopped into IGA and got some smores supplies. I had decided that I didn't want to wear my trench coat for the drive up, but Craig was all dressed up, so we went through the IGA with everyone laughing at us. It was quite amusing actually, because at first, I couldn't figure out why everyone was either laughing or looking at us funny. (Craig had on black shirt and pants, grey sports coat, a fedora that didn't really fit, round sunglasses and some dollar store gold necklace (his bling bling)).

Oh man. So much fun. Too bad he's going away to school in Newfoundland and I won't get to see him often at all. :<