Tomorrow!! Nikki's going to the world!

[ILMICKEY]

I didn't realize that it's been forever since I visited your trip report, I had to go back a couple of pages just to catch up, so I will start with the drive.

Who?
Who are you?? Name sounds familiar!

I think the route you're taking is the same one I took when I moved from Mi. to Norfolk Va. and I was completely freaked out driving through the mountains.

I have real serious issues with heights. Panic attacks. It's not pretty. Specially when I'm driving. Spiders too! I was driving down the road and noticed this spider crawling on my dashboard. I hit the skids, put it in park and jumped out. My passenger, who had no idea what the heck was wrong, freaked out and jumped out too! I think he thought the car was on fire or something!!

It was kind of funny afterwards.

But not at the time! He was coming after me.

Seriously!

My DH never lets me help with the driving, he too has a dent in the bed of his new truck, now I can't say that would not have happened had it been me driving as I have totaled a vehicle or 2 in my time, I do say in my defense, that wall jumped out in front of me.

Ya know, you could take the scenic route through Pa and stop off in Brogueville, for a country Pennsylvania Dutch home cooked Thanksgiving dinner prepared by none other than NOT ME! Kent is the cook, I thank him most sarcasticly everyday for the major weight gain over the past 13 years. I'll set a place out for you all just incase.

How does around midnight work for you??

Wait! What is the difference between Pennsylvania Dutch and Osseo roadkill?? Does it taste about the same if you season it right??

So your maiden name was Head? I can picture the jokes from that one. My maiden name was Sanford. I was called Fred alot and couldn't walk into a classroom without someone whistling, humming, and even beat boxing the theme from Sanford and son.

Kids can be so mean!! I like the revenge now. Especially when I go into a gas station or famous fast food chain, and one of my old classmates is the manager!!

DISCLAIMER-There is nothing wrong with being a manager of a fast food restaurant or a gas station IF you never picked on a person of lesser "class" in school!!

Great to have you back! How'd the slumber party go???

 

[roxannensteve]

Have fun camping - see you Tuesday

 

[ILMICKEY]

Thanks! I will.

I can't wait to go. We haven't been camping since Memorial weekend LAST YEAR!!

Tents, campfires, smores, , I am so excited!!! Next best thing to Disney in my book!

Since I have so long to get to my Disney trip report I will do a "test" report on my camping trip!!

 

[disneyaddicted]

I had to go searching for you and found you aaaaaalll the way back on page eleventymillion, so I am bumping you back to the front.

Now I have to say Pennsylvania Dutch is a wee bit bland compared to Osseo roadkill, and lacks in the maggots, but aside from that it's all good. So you might come for turkeyday? Midnight works for me, I will leave the key under the matt and your meal in the fridge, just nuke it for a few and enjoy, last one out please turn off the lights and lock the door.

How was camping? Do we get a mini TR?

 

[blue_river]

I changed my title. Don't really think it helped, but I like the sound of a Road Trip better!!

I LOVE the new title you chose!!!

 

[ILMICKEY]

I had to go searching for you and found you aaaaaalll the way back on page eleventymillion, so I am bumping you back to the front.

Thanks Pal! I've just been so busy. I am working 10 hour days, kid to run around and tomatoes to can!!

Now I have to say Pennsylvania Dutch is a wee bit bland compared to Osseo roadkill, and lacks in the maggots, but aside from that it's all good. So you might come for turkeyday? Midnight works for me, I will leave the key under the matt and your meal in the fridge, just nuke it for a few and enjoy, last one out please turn off the lights and lock the door.

O.k., this sounds fun! I'm thinkin about when we partied in our early years and someone passed out, ya know the peanut butter thing on the nose?? Or putting someones hand in a cup of warm water?? Member these things??

NOW!! Do you really want me to come into your house while you are sleeping??

How was camping? Do we get a mini TR?

Yep, Soon. I did get some pictures uploaded in between all my excuses!

I LOVE the new title you chose!!!

Thanks! I started so early, I was even sick of it. Needed something new. Might do it again, maybe! I still have blah blah months, blah blah weeks and blah blah days.

CAN YOU TELL I NEED A REAL VACATION???????

I could be living through someone elses right now, but she is still on the part about her travel agent!

I am really glad she's back though!! Safe and sound!

 

[ILMICKEY]

We go to a pretty local campground. It was about 40 minutes from our house and 5 minutes for Fred to drive to work. We can't ever go on a real vacation in the summer because he owns a lawn and landscaping business, his boss won't let him take the time off! He can just go back and forth from there.

We got up early Friday morning (I took the day off). Sport had practice at 7:30 a.m. ON MY DAY OFF! But o.k. this will give me time to go back home, shower and shave.

My legs.

Got myself all smelling pretty for the mosquitoes, got the car packed with the tents, sleeping bags and pillows and Mozart and I were on our way.

Stopped to get Sport from practice first. Gosh he needs a haircut. I swear his hair looks like a helmet. He shaved it at the start of summer so it all kind of grew out the same length.

We got to the campground around 11:00. NO ONE was there. It was pretty empty back in the primitive part. I like! So we got the tents out and erected our homes for the next 3 nights!

This was only round 1 though. See I have a Jeep Liberty, they aren't real big. We have a lot of camping stuff.

So off we go again.

Shopping.

For Vittles.

125 dollars later. Yes, 125 dollars. I KNOW! I DON'T SPEND THAT MUCH IN A WEEK on groceries.

Must have been the smore stuff???

Since we had no more money for gas, we pushed the car home! (I made that part up)

Loaded up the coolers, camping junk, wardrobe (do you believe I took 3 pairs of shoes?? You never know) and we were on the road again.

Sport took a friend with him. This is a good thing. I didn't hear one "I'm Bored" the whole weekend. Mozart will find a friend to hang out with.

We stopped to get the friend. I haven't ever met him before so I was hoping for the best. Sport has some real bad influences that he hangs out with, just ask the cop that came to my house this summer to tell me my son and his "influence" just broke some windows on a house! NICE!

But this friend was a really good kid. Not one problem all weekend! Cept he couldn't catch a fish. And he wouldn't drink beer.

KIDDING!

He had a couple.

KIDDING! Geez.

We got back to the campground around 5:00. There were more people back in primitive.

Side note: I hate the word Primitive. I am not a cave person. I eat with forks(plastic). I do not CRAP in the woods. Why do they call it PRIMITIVE??

The boys all took off, it was nice. I watched these people that were next to us try to park the pop-up camper. That was fun. Mom was standing there telling dad she didn't like it there. He'd drive around the park, come up through a different set of trees and park a little different.

Well, she didn't like that either. This must have went on for at least 10 times around the park.

What a man!! Pleasin his woman like that.

Must be engaged! Or he just really really loves her. I'm thinkin Fred would have jumped out of the truck and told me to park the _____ thing where I wanted it!!

Anyway, the teenage boys and dad eventually pushed it by hand to where mom wanted it.

All was well in primitive!!

For now.

Here are some pictures of home!

This was sooooo comfy! I absolutely LOVE sleeping in a tent. As long as I have an air mattress.

This is the view from my bed. (I was kind of bored when I took this)

My "facilities" for 3 days. See, primitive suggests there is nothing to use cept the great outdoors. I have proof.

Actually this port o potty wasn't that bad. There was this guy that came around a couple times a day to check it, clean it up and load it back up with toilet paper. Around Sunday evening he came back with some kind of chemical, apparently his smelly-o-meter must have went off, cause when I went back in it was rather nice. JUST DON'T LOOK DOWN!!! YIKES

Crooked tree????

I thought it was kind of interesting.

Fire!

Trees!

I was so scared!

Hopefully I will have the rest tomorrow!!

 

[disneyaddicted]

First I will comment on your comment.

I have a lock on my bedroom door, so I am fine with you showing up while I am sleeping... seriously, I would get up and at least say hi, (and make sure you don't take the silverware, even if it is plastic)

Your camping trip looked fun. I haven't camped in a tent in ages. (back yard doesn't count) I wanted to go camping, that's why I bought a big ole tent, then DH says, "why camp in a tent when we have a cabin?" and it's funny, cause when I did tent camp, I would always be envious of the cabin campers. I guess that saying is true, "the grass is greener on the other side of the porto potty."

So your kid broke some windows? Jim shot out a windshield in the neighbors car about 3 years ago, Had to pay for it and the stupid tarp he had covering it, couldn't he just patch it? He was a sue happy man, that's how he makes his living, so I paid the bill without question in order to save money on a lawyer and court fees down the road.

So did you write on the port o potty walls "Roxie Leatherthong was here." ?

 

[blue_river]

Gee...that post sure brought back memories!

I haven't been camping in years. (Well at least not in a tent)

That's too bad about the summer vacations thing but HEY - You're going to WDW soon!!!!!!

 

[ILMICKEY]

I have a lock on my bedroom door, so I am fine with you showing up while I am sleeping... seriously, I would get up and at least say hi, (and make sure you don't take the silverware, even if it is plastic)

That's funny, I have a lock on my door too! I wonder if it is for the same reason I do???
I would only try to take it if it is the clear, more expensive kind. I don't do the solid white!

, "why camp in a tent when we have a cabin?"

BECAUSE IT IS A TENT!!!
Tents rule! Unless it is really hot, then might as well be inside a plastic bag. Fred was talking about buying an RV or trailer or whatever you call em. I am absolutely AGAINST it. I really do love sleeping in a tent, especially when it rains. SOOOOOOOO relaxing. Aaaaaaaaah, I can hear it now!

So your kid broke some windows? Jim shot out a windshield in the neighbors car about 3 years ago, Had to pay for it and the stupid tarp he had covering it, couldn't he just patch it? He was a sue happy man, that's how he makes his living, so I paid the bill without question in order to save money on a lawyer and court fees down the road.

BOYS!! This kid will be the death of me! Oh and he didn't get to play last night either. I e-mailed the varsity coach today and he is going to talk to the JV coach. Something better get done or as soon as he can drive, he can switch schools. Mom approved!! I have had it.

I don't know why people are so sue happy these days. Maybe cause society lets them get away with it!

So did you write on the port o potty walls "Roxie Leatherthong was here." ?

Nope, it says "for a good time call Chesty Glittertush"

Gee...that post sure brought back memories!

I haven't been camping in years. (Well at least not in a tent)

I really want to come to your neck of the woods and go. Maybe someday!!

That's too bad about the summer vacations thing but HEY - You're going to WDW soon!!!!!!

That's right! I am.



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[ILMICKEY]

I'm just going to go ahead and post the rest of the pictures. Really it was an uneventful weekend. Just really relaxing.

Oh, cept one night I was walking back from the showers. It was dark. I swear I walked into the biggest cloud of pot smoke! I felt like I was in a Cheech and Chong movie.

I floated back to the campsite and ate all the smores!

Kidding.

About the floating.

and the smores!

I'm just going to tell the little funny things that happened. Cause I can't remember everything.

Purple haze and all.

Mozart and I were just hanging around the campsite when he decided he is going to split some wood!

Has he ever split wood before you asked??

NO!

Try #1

Try #2

Try #3

#4

#5

Have you noticed all the pictures are from the same piece of wood?? I couldn't take anymore pictures because I was laughing so hard I was hurting.

I am like "lord, please don't leave the 2 of us stranded somewhere I might have to rely on him to save me!"

I won't make it!

Finally by the end of the weekend, he was hacking wood like it was nothin'!
Determination I tell ya! Try try harder!!

Here is one of him that I just snapped.

Now a funny little Sport story.

I did not realize that this kid expects nothing short of complete silence when he sleeps. A couple weeks ago he was complaining about the crickets outside his window. What am I supposed to do? They are crickets. Again .

The first night our neighbors, or that is what Mozart calls them. I call them people-that-are-camping-next-to-us!

Anyway the neighbors were quite noisey. I swear in my sleep I heard Mozart yelling at them to "shut up! There are people that would like to sleep"

Next morning the "mom" neighbor apologizes for keeping us up!! I asked Sport if he heard Mozart yelling. He says no. He was the one yelling!

It wasn't in my sleep!! These people had to walk by us everytime they used the port-a-pottie! I wanted to crawl under the picnic table.

Here is my pride and joy!

Fishing

See the helmet head hair!!

Sweaty!

I don't know what kind of face that is! Constipation?? Or hey, let me take a picture of you!!

The last night we had all went to bed around 11:00. The neighbors were at it again.

You'd think Sport would have set them straight the first night, right??

Anyway I hear "shut up, we are trying to sleep"

I was yelling back, "knock it off sport"

Then he YELLS "MOM THEY ARE SMOKING REEFER"!!!



I curl up in my sleeping back and tell him to breathe deeply and he will fall asleep in no time!!!

I really did!

Fred-he didn't do anything exciting all weekend, so no story for him!

The dining plan!!

Fire!

I was messing with my camera and took these groovy pictures! I swear it was BEFORE any mention of reefer!!

I took a bunch of these. We had fun picking out things in the pictures. The 3rd one kind of looks like a fist.

Then we went home~~

 

[Simba22]

Awww!! I miss camping so much!! I used to go quite often when I was younger and it was so much fun! A few years ago I actually went with my brother and my sister for a weekend....it was the most incredibly boring trip of our lives but we laugh about it now. Imagine this:

I was approx 20 years old which would have made my sister about 18, and my brother about 16. We have never set up a tent by ourselves, and we have never made our own campfire. We arrive the day after a big rain storm so the ground is soggy and all of the "firewood" is practically useless. It takes us 2 hours to set up the tent (my brother cracks me up talking about how all the woodland animals were gathering around us with their mouths open, staring in disbelief at the ******** humans). We finally set that up and decide we want to build our first fire. We all spread out looking for useable fire making material... everything is wet. So we do what any normal teenagers would do...start throwing paper in there! That didn't work very well, and I was THISCLOSE to pouring nail-polish remover in there and light that...but I'm not that stupid so I got in the car and drove a few miles down the road to the Country Store (seriously, that's what it was called) and bought a bag of charcoal. We lit that along with branches and other stuff we found lying around that was mostly dry and had a pretty good fire going for a little while. Did I mention that while at the Country Store I also bought a bag of ice for our cooler, 2 boxes of Cocoa Pebbles, and a gallon of milk? That is what we ate for the whole weekend, pretty much. Oh, and we played Monopoly and Uno all weekend. And my brother made fun of the early morning runners/joggers by hiding in the woods and singing "Eye of the Tiger" as they ran by. It was actually very entertaining... those were the days...... Oh and I must take this moment to gloat because even though there were gross and disgusting spiders in our bathroom, we at least had flushing toilets and showers.

 

[disneyaddicted]

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Nope, it says "for a good time call Chesty Glittertush"

...

Ummmm.....thanks!

 

[ILMICKEY]

Awww!! I miss camping so much!!

You just have to go! We hadn't went since Memorial weekend of last year. It was so hot that weekend, hard to sleep, couldn't enjoy the campfire. I think that kind of burnt us out.

Oh and I must take this moment to gloat because even though there were gross and disgusting spiders in our bathroom, we at least had flushing toilets and showers.

I prefer porta potties to spiders any day!!! We did have showers, just had to walk 10 miles up hill both ways to get to them!!

...

Ummmm.....thanks!

Any time! Got any calls yet??????

 

[disneyaddicted]

Any time! Got any calls yet??????

Just some heavy breathers,

 

[ILMICKEY]

I won some tickets this summer at my company picnic to a Tigers game. I absolutely LOVE baseball. The game was last Friday and they WON!! 6-1 against the Mariners!!!!!
Here's a pic!

The lady on the right is a co-worker that won the other set of seats!!

Good Times!

 

[randy4au]

I loved the campfire pics! LOL @ the log splitting attempts (poor Mozart) and the dining plan!

I wish my wife would go camping. My 6yo son really wants to go camping, so perhaps we'll talk her into it eventually...or just go without her.

And congrats on winning the tickets to the Tigers game!

BTW, I didn't realize there were crocodiles in Michigan.

 

[ILMICKEY]

randy4au-You just have to take him camping with or without your wife. He will LOVE it. I don't understand why some people have such a hangup about it. The only comforts of home we didn't have was a TV. There were showers and normal flushing toilets, you just had to walk to get to them. I think your little guy would love it.

You should have seen the look on my guys faces when I took the picture of the Hot Dog. I wanted to take pictures of everything we ate, but I didn't want them to think I had been visiting the "neighbors"!!

Yep, we have crocodiles all over Michigan.

Last year when we were camping my daughter stopped in for a meal and to visit. She kept asking what that noise was (it was bullfrogs). We told her they were wild boars. She was freak-ing out!! It was dark and she was worried about all the kids walking around, so when they would go by she'd tell them about the boars. They would just look at her, give her the "are you nuts" look and keep walking. My gut hurt so bad from laughing so hard. Poor girl! So naive!! Hee Hee!

 

[randy4au]

I didn't want them to think I had been visiting the "neighbors"!!

LOL!!!

Yep, we have crocodiles all over Michigan.

Wow, I never knew that. I didn't realize they lived that far north. You learn something every day.

Last year when we were camping my daughter stopped in for a meal and to visit. She kept asking what that noise was (it was bullfrogs). We told her they were wild boars. She was freak-ing out!! It was dark and she was worried about all the kids walking around, so when they would go by she'd tell them about the boars. They would just look at her, give her the "are you nuts" look and keep walking. My gut hurt so bad from laughing so hard. Poor girl! So naive!! Hee Hee!

That is hilarious!!!

 

[ILMICKEY]

Wow, I never knew that. I didn't realize they lived that far north. You learn something every day.

No? You've never seen the movie Lk. Placid?? That was a true story! I realize that was in New York but they have migrated over here.

Really!