{4} This weekend I went camping…

If you look closely you can see butterflies around the tree.

The weather was great and despite my reservations the campsite was absolutely as I remembered it. From the butterfly city in the tree tops down to the little ant city on the picnic table. Usually when I camp with my mother we end up at each other’s throats, thought I was determined to make this time different. My son was so excited to be camping with me, since he usually goes with my mother and step-father alone. I will admit I was extremely pumped up for it also.

The tent.

A brand new orange tent, two borrowed sleeping bags, and an aged ratty old mattress all set up to be our shelter for the night. Anyhow, I spent all of the day reading. Mom and Greg stayed down at the creek in their chairs. Meanwhile Nate ran back and forth stirring up a whirlwind of chaos and destruction. Perhaps that is an exaggeration, he wasn’t all that bad.

The teeny tiny fire

The night was really chilly and frankly all I wanted to do was go home and take a hot bath. Seeing as I was in the middle of a pay-to-stay campground 40 minutes away from my town, without my car I had to just suck it up and deal with it. The problem was that I went camping with my parents and not my Prometheus reincarnate brother. The fire didn’t happen until it was so close to full dark I had already donned my sweatshirt and a blanket.

I had planned on an awesome photo adventure. Sure enough not thirty paces in my damn camera battery died. I did however manage to get some great shots of the beloved creek from my childhood. 

This shot is the last I took before the camera died.

The moon still visible before the sun broke free all the way.

The book that I read started out a lot like several different stories. It was like a combination between Hush, Hush and Pretty Little Liars. Though once I got through the extended prologue, it actually turned out to be quite original and fairly well written. Who am I to judge though, I have yet to complete a novel worth selling. My prior two were terrible disasters. I got the Wal*Mart one where it has more than one story in a book, and I have not finished the second one. When I do, I will write a review.