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March 27, 2006 / mercurialmusic

great weekend, let me tell you...

friday. the original plan was to leave friday when we were all finished with classes and packed. instead we decided to sit out the 20 degree night in the warmth of our own beds with march madness and a game of poker to keep us occupied.

saturday. saturday was the day of the trip. jon and logan drove over to our house and after changing a tire on jon's van, we had a nice breakfast of biscuits and sausage gravy with mushrooms. good stuff. then we drove an hour to osage beach, missouri and set up camp. we hung out that afternoon, spending a little time driving around the town and collecting a few last-minute supplies for the camp, then returned to cook some pork-burgers and ribs. awesome stuff. saturday night we sat around the fire and talked and set off some bottle rockets in the lake and played with the fire, but nothing interesting.

sunday. after a nice sleep-in (because we were too cold to get up--seriously, it was freezing, but we were well wrapped in blankets and kept fairly warm) we made a campfire breakfast of pancakes with strawberries and sausages. after all (or most) of that was cleared, we decided to take a hike on one of the many trails around the area. our trail was only about four miles long and was mostly forrest and rolling hills, but it was still very nice (sorry, no pictures here). at one point we even found the source of a spring that bubbled right out of the side of the hill. we worked up a decent hunger after this, so naturally we went into town and had wendy's. logan had to leave from there for an interview (pfft), but he missed out on all the fun of breaking camp, after which brandon and i decided to go for a dip in the freezing lake. we got up to our knees before screaming and running back to the shore, but we wet our hair to make it look like we went all the way in. . but we threw a football around (or at least he did and i sort of lobbed it back to him) for a bit before hitting the outlet mall in town. huge place and some good shops (it's a little scary how much we both like to shop), and i got a jacket and a t-shirt and spent $20.

we ended up coming back a little earlier than we expected, and we didn't actually do all the much, but it was still a fun time.