I didn't get any pictures when we got there Friday night, because it was already rather late. A friend had taken our tent up, since we'd be arriving later on, and they had it setup for us already!
We spent the night sitting around the campfire, talking and hear some stories from Mark, Ian's dad. He has a lot of outdoors experience and was sharing some of his worldly wisdom.
I realized, at some point that I had forgotten my shoes, I just had my flipflops... I also realized that I didn't bring any pants, just shorts. No biggie, its not that cold, the fire is warm and its no big deal. I joked, due to some rain forecast for overnight, that we'd all wake up to half a foot of snow.
I may as well have been in a horror movie and said "Nah, we've got plenty of bullets" because sure enough, when I woke up in the morning, we had snow. Lots of snow.
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| Me looking not so amused. Thankfully Tomas had an extra pair of shoes, and I had warmed them up in the truck before taking this picture, because I couldn't feel my feet. I do barefoot plenty, but certainly not used to snow. |
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| Driving out of the camping area had to take this picture, I wish we would have known it would snow, so we would have taken pictures of before and after. There was NO SNOW here the afternoon before. |
On the way out of Globe, AZ we stopped at a diner for some grub. Going into this I knew my pickings would be slim, but I ordered up a Veggie Omelette hold the mushrooms (for allergy). Again, the dumb things that come out of my mouth come back to haunt me - I said to Tomas, $10 says my omelette has mushrooms in it...
The waitress brought out all our food, even called out who had Veggie Omelette and handed me an omelette with sausage, mushrooms and all sorts of other bullshit I didn't want - So completely obvious that it was not what I ordered I didn't even have a bite before I sent it back.. I generally don't send food back, but this time I did. I was given a second omelette, it looked a little less omelette like, but seemed to be clear of bs - after a few bites I realized it is full of mushrooms. Sent that one back. Third time I got a soggy pile of half-cooked eggs with some veggies in it, no sausage or mushrooms. Everyone was waiting on me to finish, which was a bummer. Its bad enough that I'm doing the vegetarian thing, and it comes up in conversation a lot. I feel that people think I'm judging them, I'm really not, and I'm sure they don't feel that way, for the most part, but I feel that way and it bums me out.
I gave my debit card to Jessica, and asked her to pay, because I didn't want to speak with anyone, not that I ever expect anything for free, and was willing to pay for my omelette, It surprised me, after advising the waitress when I initially ordered that I was allergic to mushrooms, that having to send the food back twice and getting a steaming pile of crap, they charged me for it. Oh well.
Driving back into town, my body must have known I was getting close to home, my insides started doing its mushroom rumble dance.
Ended up feeling like crap for the rest of the day, took a nap after falling asleep in the shower (yes, its possible, no its not as glorious as it sounds). Now its 1am, I can't sleep and I still feel like garbage. Can't help but blame the mushrooms.
For the record, my wife is the most amazing person, the last two times camping without her were not as awesome as they could have been if she had been there. Despite the snow and coming back 2 days/1night early, I'm very happy we made the trip.
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