annual camping trip extravaganza

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Here are pics from our annual camping trip.

We started it last year for our anniversary.

This year we're a bit late,

(only by a month and 10 days)

but it was great time, great food, great scenery!

we live here suckas
our first campsite

It was at Summit Lake north of

Steamboat Springs, CO

our campsite

can you see the black cloud enveloping our site?

Oh, no?

well, in case you were wondering,

it's massive swarms of mosquitos.

not like oklahoma/tx swarms,

but like swarms from the movie BIRDS swarms.

it was awful.

but we made the most of it.

we had some all natual lemon bugspray and

our handy citronella candle to ward off bugs.

Shoot at this point i woulda drank DEET.

it wasn't like oh, a bug here bug there,

it was like constant swarms.

but look how pretty.

damn summit lake.

eww scary bug. so i took a pic.

summit lake = cold


a bit chilly, but mainly long sleeves and
pants for mosquito protection!


we couldn't handle it anymore,

we got in the tent and read until

it was time to cook dinner.

these are our sad faces.

we wanted to play frisbee.

even schnooze was dissappointed

at least we had some beer

these (on the outside of the tent don't worry)

were just a FEW of them. I mean few.

it was hilarious though, when we were setting up

the tent and putting stuff in it, we were

so determined to not get bugs in, we were

like crazy people zipping and unzipping,

throwing stuff in, zipping back up.

If you woulda seen us, you woulda laughed.

as it got cooler and breezier and

smokier from the fire, there were fewer.

like still oklahoma bad, but at this point it was

nice :). this is the classic "mom & david pose".

but mom would take a pic then david, and cut one

of the people out and glue it in. b/c the didnt have a

tripod. they have one now.

jeep commercial.

eat that Lane and Jess.

hobo dinners in the fire.

i also made this thing sus made.

biscuits/cinnamon/sugar/butter in foil.

hmmmm yummy?!!!?

here schnooze, catch...

good girl!!!!!!
okay, biscuits need to be

BY the fire, not IN it :)

they were pretty much charcoal.

but i dug deeper, and on the inside

they were pretty good :)

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we went to bed after seeing the stars for a minute

(beautiful, i felt like i could touch

the big dipper).

it got into the upper 40's. brrrr.

we ate b/f, then headed to our next dest.

leaving our mosquito ridden site.

even while taking this pic on the side of the road,

they were getting in our car. i pretty much

jumped in as cameron was driving away.

right after i took this i almost lost the camera

b/c a mosq. landed on me and i was

flinging my arms all over the place.

again, stopped to take this, rolled the

windows down, and got attacked...

i yelled... GO GO GO and

we sped off :(

cute falls though

just chilling on the dirt road

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next dest: strawberry springs

natural hot springs made cute :)

we're so cool

(ps this was like a free bath :))

the first pool off the water fall was

so freaking hot, they say it's 102*

but i think it's like 140*

there were about 6-7 pools, but

my pics don't show them very well.

a few were cooler and cold once

they got further away from the falls.

to the right behind us, those rocks

are the hotspring falls.

us leaving

weird cloud

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then to our next stop:

Then we went to hike at Fish Creek Falls

post card pic

cam made that hiking stick himself

on the bridge across the river

schnooze got in the water

COLD!

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then into town to gas up

get dip 'n' dots

and

100% pure DEET

(just in case)

we had to settle for 25%

dangit.

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then off to our next campsite:

Meadows

south of steamboat

1-5 mosquitos MAYBE

YEAH!!!!

(but next to our campsite was a PIT BULL...

who's worried about bears when THAT

is next to you???)

a "pre-party" as i called it

I PROMISE PROMISE PROMISE

we made these ALL by ourselves, and cooked

the beef all by ourselves.

but for some reason, cameron pounded it flat,

then wrapped it in foil to cook,

and when it came out, it looked like a bigger

version of each square.

so i just thought the easiest thing to do was to

cut it in smaller squares.

either way, it was tasty!

schnooze gets stuff stuck in her beard

ALL the time, but this is the best yet.

blow this pic up and above cameron's mouth you will see a small green squiggle.

it is a catapiller dangling from a tread or something.

anyway, it was some darn good entertainment.

we ate our nachos, drank some beer, made some awesome desserts (see below)

played Phase 10, watched the stars

saw 2 shooting stars, went to bed.

we woke up, ate b/f, and headed home to shower!!!!

Apple dessert: cut up a green apple, add cut up

refridgerated biscuits, place butter pats all over,

sprinkle cinnamon and sugar, wrap in foil

cook to side of fire:

end up with an apple pie like item!!

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and tonight we get to end our trip with

dinner at The Fort

The Fort, an award-winning restaurant located in Southwest Denver,

is one of the nation's most recognized establishments and sells more buffalo steaks

than any other independently owned restaurant in the country.

Featuring fine beef, buffalo, game and seafood,

The Fort's menu offers a tantalizing selection

of old and new foods from the Great West.

One of the ladies cameron tutored in Stats

gave us a gift card here :) woohoo!