Sunday, August 19, 2007

Camping, Episode I - The Fellowship of the Mellens...

A long, long time ago at a campground far, far away...

Okay, not so long ago and only about 3 hours away - you caught me. Caught me at both exaggerating and being a major geek. For this first part, I'll keep the commentary brief and let the pictures do some speaking for themselves with a comment thrown in here and there for good measure. For the first part in this trilogy (?) of posts, we'll start with some pictures from the first night on Friday.

Que theme song...
The pioneers arriving and setting up shop (including but not in any particular order: Jaimie 'Wife' Winklepleck, Rick 'Dad' Mellen, Sara 'Sister' Mellen, and Noah 'Nephew' Mellen)...

hehe, you said weiner!
Jaimie helping to prepare dinner for the first night. For all the guys wondering - yes it's camp food, they're weiners (insert innuendo here or in the comments, I know I would) and brat(wurst)s.

Similar to the lighting of the Olympic Torch.
Tom and Samantha arrive just in time for dinner and the building of the opening fire which officially kicks off the weekend of camping that lies ahead.

Shortly after s'mores and before bed, Anna 'Mom' Mellen would arrive with the remainder of dogs (not of the 'Hot' variety though). As the first night drew to a close, the fullest of days was waiting to rise with the sun on the horizon - literally. In the next chapter of this epic saga, a day of hiking and another camp fire awaits our hero's - will they survive!?
To be continued...

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Your posts are so funny...I enjoy reading them!