Being Normal is Overrated

Camping!

Ah, taking a shower after being really dirty feels so good...

Anyway, I went camping! And it was actually fun!

So, let me try to tell this in chronological order...

I was reading Insurgent. It is really good, but why does Veronica Roth have to kill off every character you get attached to? It isn't faaaaiiirr!

But that has nothing to do with camping. When we got there, my sister and I pretended we were in the Hunger Games. But that didn't last long because my nephews arrived. Their dog jumped out of their car when I was walking Hazel! 😂 It was hilarious! (I accidentally typed hilaripus 😂)

We discovered a trail that led to my older brother's campsite. And my older sister's campsite was so close it didn't need a shortcut.

When it got dark out my nephews got out their glowsticks. I put a red one on my right wrist, a green one on my left wrist, a yellow one dangling from a belt loop on my left leg, and a blue one on my right leg. I was wearing a black shirt. So I formed Voltron! Oh, and the red one had a purple one linked to it.

At night, I stayed up late with the adults and we talked around the campfire. We saw a raccoon rooting around in my brother's garbage! Then, around midnight, we heard two raccoons fighting. I went over to my sister's campsite with her to help her put her cooler away and two of my nephews came out of their tents to show us the raccoons.

The next day we went swimming. Yay! My nephew and I were running to the beach and almost ran off the edge of the grass where there was a wall because we thought there was a hill. Then we went back and jumped off on purpose because it was fun. (I hurt my toe though) Then another one of my nephews and I tried to catch minnows. We did not succeed. And his older brother joined us and they caught bigger fish with their fishing poles. We also jumped off the dock into the water.

We came back to the campsite and had a water balloon fight. They were supposed to fill up all at once, but we didn't have a hose, so we filled them up individually with the spout at the water fountain. I discovered that it was better not to tie them so I could use them as a close-range water gun and reuse them. One of my nephews threw them at cars that passed by, and then we all ran across the field to the bathrooms when one car backed up.

My sister got her water bottle and splashed water at us that way, which was annoying. Then, one of my nephews went to his campsite and returned with a tub that he filled up with water! So, we got soaked. Then my sister decided to fill her water bottle with dirty water from a puddle and splash it at me...

😑

So they had to splash me over and over with the tub of water to get the mud off, and it. Was. Cold. Really sis? Did ya have to?

But speaking of mud, my nephew  fell in a mud puddle when we were playing frisbee. I laughed at him because it was hilarious! 😂

We saw more raccoons later in the day. At night, my sister's dog was growling at them. We joked that my two year old nephew would walk over with a raccoon on a leash and say, "My have Caccoon!" Then we sang along to a bunch of songs because my brother brought his guitar. They were mostly songs that my parents knew all the words to, and I knew only the chorus, but it was fun. Then my brother looked up a youtube video of Say Something and my dad and I sang it as a duet with me singing the harmony and him singing the melody.

Then today we went on a long hike. We went in a cave, and it was pretty cool, but hard to get around the puddles of murky water. Later in the hike, my dad, my brother-in-law, one of my nephews (his brothers were fishing and the two year old was at the lake) and I climbed a rock that wasn't part of the trail. My sister didn't because it was really hard to get up onto the rock and my dad had to half pull me up because I wasn't tall enough to get up the way he did. We stood on the edge of a cliff with a really huge drop. To get down, my nephew and I had to slide through a hole in the rock. I decided I might have an aptitude for Dauntless as well as Amity and Erudite.

I was really tired when we got back from the four-hour hike and also really dirty. When we got back to my house I took a long shower.

So yeahz, that is my mostly chronologically correct narrative of my camping trip! 😁