Saturday, July 03, 2010

Camping

I haven't posted for awhile as I haven't had much worth writing about. I could write about the multiple times each day I find poop, pee, and regurgitated breast milk on me, but who wants to hear about that? I suppose I could write about the wicked cool trailer we recently purchased. We went camping last weekend with my parents and it was pretty nice. Mom helped me take care of the kids while Brian and Dad went digging for Topaz. Brian found some pretty big ones. We had to peal his fingers off the shovel so he would drive us back to the trailer so we could eat. After everyone ate and napped Brian and my dad headed back to dig some more. While they were gone, I couldn't get the generator to start so the trailer was like a little oven roasting us inside. Topaz Mountain is a desert. No lakes or water around. Luckily we were camped by one small tree so we would kind of huddle in the shade until we couldn't stand the wind and then get back in the oven until we couldn't stand the heat. 4 hours or so later, Brian and my dad come back. They failed to take the camping chairs out of the truck before they left so we had nowhere to sit outside. On their way back they got a flat tire. All in all, I have little desire to go camping there again. Brian recently bought a book about how to find Topaz or something like that as he plans to go back there often. I think it would have been fun if I could have tried to dig a little myself and didn't stress out about the kids so much, but with the heat and no shade, it wasn't super enjoyable.
On the way home, Brian's eye really started to bother him. We had to stop about 3 times because it was hurting so much and he was trying to drive with blurry vision while pulling the trailer. He had more faith in his hurt, blind eye than he did in me or my dad attempting to pull the trailer. Can't say I blame him. He went to the insta-care that night and they were useless. $40 for someone to say, "You MAY have pink eye but you may not. He is a prescription for some antiiotics to drop in your eye." Idiot fake doctors. He went to a real eye doctor yesterday and they told him he has Iritis. I think it's where the middle part of your eye swells and it's really painful as your eye tries to focus and adjust to light. They gave him some kind of white eye drops to treat it and it is supposed to go away soon. Next time we go camping I would like to go to a closer wooded area so I can sit in the shade and relax. I'm still excited about the trailer since it beats tent camping any day.

1 comment:

Vapid Vixen said...

"We had to peal his fingers off the shovel so he would drive us back to the trailer so we could eat."
That made me laugh! So all in all sounds like I missed out on a really good time. Next time Tara...next time.