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South Dakota pics
Jul. 7th, 2008 11:58 amAll right, so I finally got my pics off my camera. I resized some of them and uploaded them to my photobucket, so now I can share them with y'all.
I hated the idea of camping before I went. Now I'm back, and I can say with absolute certainty that I LOATHE camping. Well, I suppose I have mixed feelings. We reserved our campsite online - it was a nice campsite, the pictures were true to what we actually had.
Almost.
The pictures looked like they were two campsites, right next to each other and on flat ground. Oh, no. They were up a steep-ass hill, and ours was at the top. Hello? Fat people can't climb hills!! And I discovered, too, that every time I got up to the damn tent, I had to go right back down to go to the bathroom. EVERY. TIME.
ANYWAY. Got there Thursday, June 19th a little after noon. Finally got everything up that damn hill, set up our tent with no trouble. Got everything inside. Then a thunderstorm rolled in. A four-hour-long thunderstorm, complete with giant, marble-sized hail. The pics I have of the hail make it look sparse, but believe me, it looked worse before I managed to snap some pics.
So anyway, the four of us (hubby, Mikey, Amanda and me) were spooning through most of the storm because it was freezing. When it stopped, we all had a bit of dinner, had a nice fire for a couple hours, then went to bed. I was up an hour later, and let's just leave it at "worst night of my entire life. BAR. NONE." If you really want the gruesome details, I'll tell you - but we'll leave it there for now.
That evening it got down to about 40 degrees, and down to 45 the next night. The air mattress we brought along was out of air before bedtime the first night even came along, so I didn't sleep well at all the whole trip - and I had really strange dreams the last two nights.
But all the storms and the horrible nights aside, Saturday and Sunday were absolutely beautiful days; those kind of made up for the crummy weather the first two afternoons.
( ♪ Great Faces, Great Places - South Dakota ♪ )
My disdain for camping aside, South Dakota was absolutely lovely - it's very easy to see why people would want to live there.
Makes your heart sigh a little, no? XD
I hated the idea of camping before I went. Now I'm back, and I can say with absolute certainty that I LOATHE camping. Well, I suppose I have mixed feelings. We reserved our campsite online - it was a nice campsite, the pictures were true to what we actually had.
Almost.
The pictures looked like they were two campsites, right next to each other and on flat ground. Oh, no. They were up a steep-ass hill, and ours was at the top. Hello? Fat people can't climb hills!! And I discovered, too, that every time I got up to the damn tent, I had to go right back down to go to the bathroom. EVERY. TIME.
ANYWAY. Got there Thursday, June 19th a little after noon. Finally got everything up that damn hill, set up our tent with no trouble. Got everything inside. Then a thunderstorm rolled in. A four-hour-long thunderstorm, complete with giant, marble-sized hail. The pics I have of the hail make it look sparse, but believe me, it looked worse before I managed to snap some pics.
So anyway, the four of us (hubby, Mikey, Amanda and me) were spooning through most of the storm because it was freezing. When it stopped, we all had a bit of dinner, had a nice fire for a couple hours, then went to bed. I was up an hour later, and let's just leave it at "worst night of my entire life. BAR. NONE." If you really want the gruesome details, I'll tell you - but we'll leave it there for now.
That evening it got down to about 40 degrees, and down to 45 the next night. The air mattress we brought along was out of air before bedtime the first night even came along, so I didn't sleep well at all the whole trip - and I had really strange dreams the last two nights.
But all the storms and the horrible nights aside, Saturday and Sunday were absolutely beautiful days; those kind of made up for the crummy weather the first two afternoons.
( ♪ Great Faces, Great Places - South Dakota ♪ )
My disdain for camping aside, South Dakota was absolutely lovely - it's very easy to see why people would want to live there.
Makes your heart sigh a little, no? XD
