The World of Hails: Camping Trip

Derek and I went camping last weekend with our friends the Bisels and Rhett. We had wanted to go camping and we mentioned to the Bisels and they definitely made it happen. Derek and I aren't the best planners so Aimee and Cole stepped in and helped us plan! It was so much FUN!

Derek had Friday off so we started the day off by going to Roswell to the eye doctor. Roswell is about an hour away from Carlsbad. Yes, we could've gone to a doctor in Carlsbad but one lady we talked to said that the doctor here charges about twice as much and it is usually a two month wait to get in. I was blown away. So we went to Roswell and then headed toward Cloud Croft where we would be camping. When we started driving toward Cloud Croft we were driving in land that was BARREN! As far as the eye could see, there was flat, dry, yellow ground with a few tiny sagebrush here and there. I was thinking to myself... this may be a unique camping experience for us! Well slowly the landscape started shifting and by the time we had driven two hours it looked like we were in the middle of Island Park with the fresh mountain air and all. We set up our tent and started a fire (I started the fire :) ). Cole and Aimee made us tinfoil dinners or hobo dinners and they were so, so good! After eating jalepeno fire cheetos, s'mores, and hobo dinners it was getting dark and we decided to go play a game in our tent. Once the sun went down the wind picked up. It was blowing so, so hard. The sides of our tent were caving in on us while we were trying to play our game and the light was waving back and forth and it was really fun but really hard to play a game. With the light waving back a forth it would have been a lot easier to have a disco dance party. We just didn't have the music or the dancing skills! Eventually our tent ripped and came tumbling down pretty much. :( So Derek, Carly, and I slept in our car, Rhett slept in the Bisels truck, and the Bisels slept in their tent that was obviously a little higher quality than ours seeing that it didn't even look like it was touched by the wind! :)

The next day we replayed our game on a flat table in the nice constant daylight and it was a blast. We ate breakfast consisting of apple juice, bagels and cream cheese, and grapes. MMmmm... Then we went for a walk, sat around the fire, ate lunch, and just did what campers do.... Relaxed! It was so nice. We ended the day by driving to the town Cloud Croft which has a West Yellowstone feel. Everything was closed but we did find a pizza shop that we stopped at and ate dinner before hitting the road again to go home!