camping! also, pirates

[jazzfish]

Camping was pretty awesome. Lots of holly trees, and thus holly leaves, everywhere (owch), lots of toads everywhere (on the hike on Satyrday I think we were seeing another one every ten minutes or so). 20-30 non-itchy mosquito bites, two mosquito bites that itch every time I bump them, and one tick. Also two second-degree burns (both small and basically healed now): one from eating a marshmallow directly off of a metal marshmallow toasting fork (after which I switched to using sticks, the way God intended), one from attempting to pick up a pot by its handle. The backpacking stove worked wonderfully, as did the monkeybread made in the small bakepacker oven. We had a campfire and s'mores. (Note to self: bring chairs next time.) The weather was a bit on the warm side. I feel like it's not really camping if I can't see my breath in the mornings. The hike was a pretty easy seven miles through pine forest (bleh) and hardwood; took us a little over four hours. Verdict: definitely doing that again. Possibly with more cool people; possibly actually backpacking and not just car-camping. We shall see.

Pirates was alright. Elizabeth and Will's relationship continues to aggravate me. Points for the flying zombie monkey, Chow Yun-Fat, Captain Teague, the opening fight sequence, the fight in the whirlpool, and Geoffrey Rush. Minus points for turning Tia Dalma into a Plot Device and for being insufficiently actiony between the two big fights. I don't think it really needed to be three hours long. Oh, and the rock crabs were awesome.

willshetterly has been posting things that make me think lately, but I've not had time to go into them. Maybe tonight.

Ice cream and movie tomorrow night.