Camping

Hi. So here's the honest truth: George doesn't want to do the blog anymore. He is tired of it. Admittedly, I share some of those feelings, and have been doing a lot of updating through facebook recently, but I know some of you don't do facebook, and I still want to stay connected so I'll just champion this blog as my own now. Of course your messages will be relayed to George, and maybe if you make a lot of comments we can guilt him into making a post now and then...right? But seriously your comments are invaluable. If you don't comment, how do I even know it's being read, and if it isn't being read then I really should just stop. So make your little posties, and keep your part of the bargain okay?

On to news: We just returned from a two-night camping trip to Colton Point State Park on the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania! This was our first camping excursion together, and will all of our new stuff from the wedding registry, so it was kind of a tutorial to camping for us, and we learned a lot. Neither of us had been camping since childhood (I've only done backpacking since high school, so figuring out the logistics was the main part. But we did fine! We didn't really forget anything. We got to camp only to find out that the water there was not safe to drink, so we did have to go into town to get some bottled water, and some firewood. The first night there were maybe 3 other camping groups, but the second night we were the only ones in the camp ground save for the critters.

And critters there were. Both nights we were visited by a raccoon, and on the first night we discovered this while trying to sleep, and had to get up and put things in the car. He couldn't' get to the food, but was trying to open the cooler, and had gotten into our pots and pans. The second night he came a little earlier and we were still up, so I got some photos.
We took a hike to the bottom of the canyon, which was really nice. The park was pretty empty so it definitely felt like we had the place to ourselves. Saw some neat wildlife too.

So camping was great except for the sleeping part. We basically could not sleep. The sleeping bags and pads took some getting used to, and left us a little cramped in the morning. But we had a really great time anyway.

It's back to catching birds at 6am tomorrow for me! LOVE LOVE!