Fall break rolled around last weekend and myself and four friends decided to go camping. We traveled down highway 67 way south to Sam A. Baker national park. This is definitely in the middle-of-nowhere-Missouri. It took about 2 hours to get there, and the closest gas station, besides the Amoco stationed right next to the park, was 30 minutes away.
We went there on Sunday morning and came back Tuesday midday. Sunday was pretty low-key. We set up the camp site and sat around the fire at night. One of my friends is a big cleveland Indians fan, and we somehow managed to pick up slightly enough reception on the radio to listen to the game. So we sat around the fire, ate hot dogs, drank a few beers, and listened to the game. It was fun, but not for Bryan; his team lost.
We got unlucky the second day though. The temperature dropped to about 50. It also started pouring rain. That was just plain awful. We got a short hiatus from the rain in the middle of the day and went on a 5 mile hike, but once we got back to the campsite, it started raining again. We tried to keep the fire going, but pretty much just remained uncomfortable together. Between the cold, rain, and mountains of hot dogs, it was pretty miserable. But it was still awesome- probably because we were miserable together.
I have two funny things to post tonight.
1.) I was jumping around on cnnsi.com today and found this hilarious clip of a division three football game. You should watch it, it's pretty incredible. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/10/28/trinity.lateralapalooza.ap/index.html
2.) I have a picture to show you guys. I have a project in an English class in which I had to find something on SLU's campus that I think should be changed. I picked the statues that surround the campus. I won't go into details but I will show a picture. It's called the Madonna Del La Strada. I call it the Virgin Mary of the ice cream scoop.
