Campfire Memento's

Campfire Memento’s:

     I am writing this at my campsite so I won’t be able to post it until I make it back to Tulsa, but, being that I have had a full day on the lake and am exhausted I think I will just write my thoughts down now.  It’s better when they are fresh in my head anyways! 

Oscar loved the boat!!

     It is our first full day here and we have one to two more days to go.  I’m not sure how much Dan has actually enjoyed this but I know I have.  He is currently asleep in the camper and we are anxiously awaiting our dinner to cook.  Why is it everything tastes better on the lake?  Tonight’s menu is steaks and potato pouches and they smell delicious.  I am also waiting to cook my S’More!  Today, I’ve been tubing, catching sun perch and then setting up trot lines. I am really hoping to catch a huge catfish!  

S'More Time!

Yum!Yum!

     The night wasn’t so great though, even though we have a generator and can enjoy some A/C in the day and all the lights we need; it’s quite hours starting from 11pm to 6 am.  If you know me at all, you know that to sleep well my house must be transformed into an igloo and I need a T.V.  So it took a while to fall asleep but once I was I slept pretty well.  Although, at first I thought I was going to be motion sick because the camper had that slight swaying motion that a plane does while you’re sitting at the terminal.  But I am not going to complain over the breeze it’s the only way I slept half way as comfortable as I did!!
Trot Lining was a lot of fun.  My dog Oscar thought the perch were something fantastic.  He was very confused when we put them into the live well.  He just kept looking over the edge of the boat and scratching on the top of the live well.  Seriously though, put yourself in his position- how weird would it be if the floor just opened??  

Oscar trying to get to the bait!!!

     The tubing: fun to watch, not, as much fun as I remember.  For one, I weigh about a million pounds more than I did the last time I was tubing, two, I am about ten years older and it hurts my knees, and three wind and water spraying your face DO NOT mix with contacts!!!  As soon as we made it back to camp I ran for the contact solution!  For those of you that don’t know I have extremely bad knees, when I was thirteen years old I blew them both out at the same time at cheer camp.  Now I get the pleasure of slathering on the Icy-Hot before bed!

This was me, trying to hang on!

     Right now though, I am sitting beside a camp fire, the wind is blowing through my hair and I am smelling wonderful food cooking.  I ask you, could life be any better than this?  I will be the first to admit I could never live back in this town but I finally know what all the fuss is about when it comes to the lake.  It’s gorgeous.  I’ve lived a lot of places and even though Tulsa isn’t that far away its best lake pales in comparison.  


     I’ll write more tomorrow night on the day’s adventures and if we caught the fish I am hoping for!


Love and Campfires,
Stephanie