Horses

A group of us went camping this past weekend to get some relaxing out of the way.  Next time we are going to have to do a little more planning beforehand, but it turned out to be the perfect weekend for it.  A couple of us had been planning this trip for three days and we found out at the last minute that the group was going to be larger than anticipated.  That was not a cause for alarm, it just took one more trip to the grocery store and we got things all squared away.

When we got to the site, it was a little too late for us to make it to the check in so we hiked to the site in the dark, set up the tents with just a few strategically placed flashlights and went to bed.  In the morning, we finished unpacking the car and setting up the site then headed to the ranger station.  We found out the site we were one was booked starting at 1400 that day so we had to pack up and move to another site.  So we went back to the site, reversed the unpacking process and then got to another site and started all over again.

We got put in the sites where people usually have horses, so we had a few people around us who had traveled with their animals.  One of the girls with us got to ride one around the clearing behind our tent which made her happy.  At first she tried taking her teacup terrier with her on the horse’s back, but she was scared he would fall out and get trampled or scooped up by a hungry owl (the dog is really small) so she passed him down to us and continued her little jaunt.

The dog was great all times of day except the morning.  He woke up at around 0530 with the sun and then started jumping around and licking us.  I woke up the first morning with him standing on my chest and his nose two inches from mine.  When I opened my eyes, and yawned, he started licking me and nibbling my nose.  This was repeated for each person in the tent with him.  It’s an interesting way to wake up.