Camping in the Wichitas
April 25, 2014 |
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We decided to go camping one Friday night in
late April, and sent out a general invite to all our friends. We had a
pretty good crowd come out to join - including three first-time
campers. We had wind of 25 miles per hour, with gusts of up to 30
miles per hour. It was challenging, but we loved everyone's
attitude. Simba summed it up with his comment, "I love the
wind." (Spoken right after ANOTHER chair blew into the fire as
soon as someone stood up from using it.) It was an adventure!
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| We arrived on a Friday night after work. Here they set up the tents. |
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We had a pair of first-class chefs working the
grills. Simba made Lamb Kebabs for everyone and Edison made some
marinated Chicken. It was all good!!
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| XiaoXing was sick but she came anyway, what a trooper! |
It's always nice to watch a camp fire |
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Notice how the flames are going sideways? It was just a little breezy.
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| David, doing some heroics to try to keep their tent in the ground. |
I put this heavy ice chest on it to help hold it down while they worked on
it. |
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| Simba is helpful too - well, sort of. He's showing off his tent pole
fighting skills. |
The tales are always taller around a camp fire! |
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We determined that Rui & David's tent would not survive the evening, so
we took it down. Eric rigged them up a "tent" by stretching
a tarp tight
over the bed of Simba's truck.
That worked fine for about an hour, until Simba got a phone call
which
told him he had to go back to OKC right then - at midnight. So Eric
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the guys put up our tent.
The guys had 3 different shelters in one short night of
camping!
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| The boys experienced their first S'More, thanks to Lauran |
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| Early the next morning, time for a little football before breakfast |
Rui and David by their third and final shelter |
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| Eric is an awesome breakfast camp chef |
He had to rig up this fancy wind break to keep the flames from blowing away |
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Rui has been watching the old classic westerns, so he was glad
to drink coffee from a metal cup |
Group pic! No one knows what David is doing here.
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What a great group of people - all with great attitudes! |
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