Wizard Update...

Whilst camping...I made it to Wizard status...Again. One of the rare times in my life that I wish I was shorter.

High Fives...

A lot of high fives being passed out while rock climbing...

Camping Joshua Tree...

Becki and Patrick invited us to join them camping in Joshua Tree National Park this past weekend. We had a beautiful group site...It could fit up to 25 people and accommodate 9 vehicles. We didn't quite have that many...we were at eleven people and three dogs...and one of those peoples was Mr. Cory Rank! Great to see you brother...Glad you made it out! Great times...weather was warm but not too warm...Just right! A lot of rock climbing, beer drinking and hydrating going on!

Camping...

After Thanksgiving we headed out towards Julian to do a little camping…Cory and Andrea rented an A-frame trailer for our home base. Becki and Patrick bought a fancy new tent with a foyer and met us at the campground that evening. It was a solid evening of cocktails, campfire and weenie roasting…and a very unfortunate discovery of a fire pit hidden in darkness found with Becki’s shin.

It was chilly out…but it was nice to have a little change of scenery/weather going on. The winds started to pick up and the clouds were flying by. The ranger cruised by and had us put out our campfire due to the high winds…so we all piled in the trailer to continue the evening. I’d say it worked out real nice…until it started to rain and B&P had to return to their tent. I felt bad for them out in the tent.

I woke up around 4am cuddled up with Megan and Lulu with the heater on and having to pee like a racehorse. I got out of the trailer and found out it was hailing outside…and then I felt even worse for B&P in their tent. Crashed out for a little while longer and when we woke up it was raining and hailing…so we decided we should pull the ripcord on camping and head up to Julian for a warm breakfast and then head home early.

We saw all kinds of accidents…people traveling faster than they should and running off the road. Snow and Ice is slick people…slow down. We made it up to Julian safe…got some breakfast…checked out the shops and hightailed it out of there as the roads cleared up.

I would have loved another day of camping…but it was kinda nice to get home and get ready for the week…ahhh the week…bleh.

Wizard Staffs...

And camping on Mt. Laguna @ Burnt Rancheria Campground. Friday night Peter and Tasha invited us up to Peter's folks place in Alpine for some bbq and pool volleyball before we embarked on our camping trip Saturday morning. Awesome food...pool volleyball...can't go wrong with that.

Saturday we cruised up to Mt. Laguna...set up camp and started working on reaching Wizard Status. One of the things I learned about reaching Wizard Status is if you are the first person to reach Wizard Status you will probably be the first Wizard to bed...but you will probably wake up later on and enjoy some quality campfire time.

All in all we had 5 people reach Wizard Status...Me, Meggy, Andrea, Martin and the birthday girl Kerry Kaye!

Good times...I really enjoyed that campground. I am ready to go back...we definitely don't go camping enough.