our yearly ritual...

so our weekend camping excursion with Mia and Dave in Big Basin was just lovely. we've been doing a camping trip with them in the fall for either 5 or 6 years running... this was our first group trip to Big Basin. i highly recommend it. what wonderful redwoods... (although honestly, i've never met a redwood i didn't like....) our campsite was actually situated in a little ring of them... which could not have been more perfect. i won't even talk about how dave forgot the tent and how cold it was and how....oh. oops! silly me.

ANYway - Big Basin = good stuff. you should check it out. :)

we ate lots of good camping food, went on two excellent hikes - one long, one short, were out of the city from fri - sun, played cards, had good chats, ate more food, played riddle games, had more chats, ate even MORE food, had lots of hot cocoa, had lots of homemade cookies, enjoyed the peace and quiet of the great outdoors, listened to mia tell us how she can't tell jokes and then proceeded to tell lots of great jokes, made fires, and ate more food and had more chats. all under the canopy of the majestic redwoods. not a bad weekend!

now why does it have to be monday tomorrow????