The birthday weekend!
October 8th, 2008 • chatter
This past weekend was the weekend preceding my birthday on Monday, just two days ago. If anyone’s wondering I turned 27. My girlfriend had spent all last week plotting and scheming about what to do and frankly, what we did do to celebrate was something of a surprise. While we were hanging out at Holloway’s Pub on Friday night, she hands me my present which turned out to be this massive 7 person tent. Needless to say I was absolutely thrilled, I hadn’t been camping in about 6 years at this point — much longer than that for her though. It seemed that myself, my girlfriend, and my best friend were all going camping!
So off we set on Saturday to get supplies (sleeping bags, food, beer, etc) even though we were going camping later that day. Since everything was a surprise, we couldn’t have purchased much of this beforehand without me suspecting something, especially if she brought home sleeping bags. But we managed to get everything and set off to Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound in the rain. The fact that it literally rained the whole way up there and pretty much the whole time we were there didn’t stop us from having fun anyway. After setting up this monster tent, we dug into the beers and took a walk around to scout fishing spots.
Word to the wise: don’t go fishing at Jonathan Dickinson in late September/early October, there’s no fish in the river.
The night went on with us nearly failing to start a fire in the rain and me dropping my steak twice in the fire pit, although it tasted damn good, and the tent being nearly unbearably hot/humid all night. It was a lot of fun even though we ended up being extremely hot and sweaty while being rained on all night. I’m definitely ready for our next camping trip!