Camping in April=Memories

Tommy and I both worked this last weekend and had Monday and Tuesday off so we spent our weekend fishing and camping . .  kind of . . .

We left Monday morning for CJ in Bruno to go bass and crappie fishing, and of course the wind started to blow because it never fails that every time we go fishing the wind blows. We stopped in Mt Home to eat lunch at Wingers and wait for the wind to kind of die down . . which it didn't haha

When we got to CJ I started setting up the tent to realize that all the poles were broken, 27 of them . . I told Tommy I didn't think we were going to be setting up the tent. He asked why and I told him all the poles were broken, but that didn't stop him! He proceeded to search the truck until he found some sort of adhesive . . . even, bandaids!

So we bandaided together 3 sets of 9 poles and set up the tent! And all the time we were trying to set it up, the wind was blowing like CRAZY! And then, we didn't have stakes to hold down the tent! And the wind was blowing hard enough that while I was attempting to hold it down, the wind was blowing us both away! Tommy didn't let that stop him either! We were going to stay the night and fish one way or another! He went and found some big rocks to put in the corners to hold it down . . . it worked.

After we got the tent set up the wind subsided just enough that we felt safe enough to get on the water.

It was my first time riding in the boat and I won't lie . . .  it was pretty dang fun!! And Tommy's a pretty great driver too! We fished for a few hours until about dark and headed back to camp :)

After pampering the boat up after it's hard work taking us fishing, we finally got a good fire going after a failed attempt. We cooked hotdogs (the best way to eat hotdogs!) and marshmallows, sat by the amazing fire (by this time), and then went to bed.

We tried this camping thing last year too and it was not a great camping experience . . . downhill slope, hard ground with rocks in our backs . . :/ So this year we set up on a more grassy area and were not on a slope! But the ground was still not all that comfortable :( *Note for next trip. .  get some kind of pad! But we were warm! Uncomfortable, but warm.

I said earlier that the wind had died down . . . sort of. Well there we are sleeping in our tent and 5am rolls around and the wind is blowing again! So strong that it wakes us up because the tent is like blowing on top of our faces! So we try to go back to sleep for 50min but decided it's time to pack up and head home . . . at 6am . . .  in the dark. So once again in the blowing wind, we get everything out of our tent, stuff it in the truck, take down our tent and head home!

Memorable camping trip down in the books!