roughing it

since i had never been camping and that idea baffeled my friends -- they decided it was about time i "roughed it". so we celebrated my daddy's b'day on the wednesday and on thursday i left for camping...
i had lunch with a friend and left to go to rockford. now the original plan was to go to dekalb, but parts of dekalb were STILL flooded from the thunderstorm 2 weeks ago. so we didnt want to take a chance and get stuck passing thru those parts to the camp site. so we detoured about 30 miles..
since my friend had a late class on thursday, we decided to stay in rockford because u cant go the camp site after a certain time.. (weird, that i can stay there in the dark, but cant set up shop). we prepped for camping on thursday - went and got groceries like grahm crackers, chocolate, marshmellows, mini kegs, BREAD, alot more BREAD, burgers and hot dogs and well more beer and bread... hahaha
anyways... so we got there at like 7am on friday, which meant we woke up at 5:30 (AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH). got there, set up shop and by now it was 9'ish..
went for a hike and collected fire wood.
on our hike we found pretty water falls and such.. but stupid pooja forgot her camera in the purse, which she wasnt allowed to bring, cause WE WERE ROUGHING IT. no cellie, no credit cards no nothing. only one person got a cellphone in case of emergency. not like there were outlets to charge it or anything (hahahaha).

came back from the hike and we decided that pooja needed to learn how to swim (yes i dont know, and NO i was not part of the decision). so pooja was then thrown into the lake... lake with nasty water... fish and water snakes.. YIPEE FUCKING KAYEEE.
so not excited about that.. i decided to get out and chase 'em all... while i was running amock - i almost ran into a deer.. :(.
he was running one way, and i was running one way... it breaked and looked at me like WTF BITCH. i wanted to pet it, and it wanted to attack me. thanks D for saving me...
there were little bunnies everywhere too... and i ignored the rest of the animals so as to sleep in peace.

came back and oo guess what we ate.. same thing we had for breakfast and same thing we had for lunch -- burgers and hot dogs.. and more smores. hahaha cant get too creative when ure camping. i was bunking it with a guy .. since well i was there with 5 guys and 2 other girls, who well were girlfriends of the 2 of the 5 guys so naturally they bunked together. i chose the guy with the NICEST tent ;)....
haha he had a cushony sleeping bag too =D ...anyways, we left the fire on thru the night, even though it was a controlled camp site, its still the OUTDOORS and i was a little concerned.

so we also played games in the dark, i wasnt too hot about that.. running AMOCK in the woods in the DARK.. where the animals are at an advantage cause their eyes are made to adjust better than mine. shit, i wouldnt know until i was being eaten by a tiger that something attacked me. granted the possibility of a tiger being at the campsite was close to none - BUT U NEVER KNOW.

woke up and ooo ate burgers and hot dogs AGAIN... packed up and left. drove out.... and well since we started out in rockford, we thought we'd drive back there and visit the botanical gardens and the river walk and the park. before we got to the botanical gardens we had to stop by at my friends place.. cause I REFUSED TO POOP/PEE OR EVEN GO BY the OUT HOUSES. i opened the door and there was a huge spider on the inside and a snake right by it. HMM HELL FUCKING NO. so we stopped by at my friends for some toilet use. i wanted to shower, but they wouldnt let me :(. so i was still dirty, but oh well i guess. everyone stunk, so it wasnt bad.

OMGGGGGGGGGGGG.. soooooooo prettyyyyyyy. there was a rose garden and ahhh... soo pretty. there were swan's and the sunset was phenominal. the houses are super cheap there, but still living on the river -- those people be RICH man. pictures follow, but lemme get thru talking first.. hahaha

so after the river walk and such.. totally poooped and decided to drive home. I MISSED MY BED. two nights of sleeping on the couch and then a sleeping bag.. i missed my lovely bed and real food. hahaha

ok ok ... here's a video of the pretty swans and ducks and geese in the lagoon which was slightly flooded in the botanical garden in rockford. the pretty sunset pictures are CLICK ME.

ok the picture upload thing is being a BITCH... so hmm i'll just post 'em later. just watch my boring video and well i'll share them later ;)