The ranger had warned us about bears. I do believe him, having camped
so much in Sequoia, but I wasn't worried too much because we were a big noisy crowd and I had the dog. However, the dog kept waking up in the night telling me she heard growling. Yep, sure enough. Lots of
growling, but it was one of the brethren snoring in his tent.
My main mistake was not taking anything to throw up into to bed with me, and when I would go outside in the night to do it, Gretel would have to go with and then try to eat it! Ewwwww! I kept telling her that if the drugs are that bad for me, they've gotta be worse for her.
I gave Gretel a Dramamine before heading up the mountain but she threw
up anyhow, so my car is really nasty now. I'm going to wait until
after girls camp to get it cleaned though. Coming down was better, and today her appetite seems back. Mine too, more or less.
My baby leaves for London in four days and the house is a MESS!
The Giants are playing the Dodgers this year for Mormon night and I've
discovered I'm not alone in the world! We've got several ward members
going together to scream for San Francisco. WAHHOOOOO! A good bit of news is I found out the Jackmans are also huge Giants fans and the boys have been raised according to the True Light. See, I told you those kids are perfect! That Tom Jackman reminds me so much of Dad. I just adore him.
I'm going to break the rules and take Gretel up to girls camp. The
stake (new camp director) has mentioned no animals. I hate to be the
kind of person who always says "In East Stake we always did it this way blah blah blah" but in East Stake the Stake brought dogs to protect from bears. Even so, one came so close to our ward's site that it clawed my big tent (right next to where Susanna then age 14, was sleeping) and the girls spent the rest of the week petrified and crammed in the with leaders. One of the leaders heard the ruckus and thought it was a raccoon, so she went out to say "shoo!" and it stood up and just stared her down. I had to buy a new tent after that. [Actually, this is sort of a lie.
Had my TR interview with Stake Presidency today; they know I'm a
troublemaker anyhow from the Chain Saw Incident.
Mon Jun 24 2002 11:03:
Ward Campout and BEARS and oh my. Our ward campout was a howling success. We had about 60 people in the end; I did all the cooking, but I don't mind. Everyone had fun doing "nothing." We played some vicious rounds of UNO and I learned a new vocabulary word--"scumsucker" from John Amundsen, Sr. ohhhh yeah. The teenagers took my bag of games and did their thing in the meadow, and lots of people who needed extra fellowship got it. It was a really neat experience. A whole crowd stayed up half the night doing the marshmallow and story thing around the campfire-- I didn't. Rachel and Gretel and I went to beddy bye by about 10 p.m. and left them to their own devices.