Karen and I went on the ECC tent camping trip this past weekend with Happyfish. The initial plan was to arrive on Friday night, but due to some circumstantial events, our small group ended up arriving on Saturday morning, much to Karen’s delight.
We proceeded to erect the 10-men tent…
Afterwards, we went down to the beach, where some jet skis were available to cruise on free of charge, courtesy of some brother in ECC. Erick and Jun took the initial run, squeezed the accelerator, and almost broke the 1 MPH barrier. Yes, my grandma could have walked faster than that. Evidently there was a foreign object caught in the vehicle, so my engineering instinct was unleashed as I attempted the delicate repair.
Having escaped shorting out the engine a few times, the repair was successful and the jet ski cruised down the runway at over 50 MPH…
When I took the helm, I decided to take it easy by squeezing the accelerator all the way, gliding down the waters through the slow region and nearly getting ticketed. So what’s new?
After that, it was time for a change of pace, and we headed to the stable for some horseback riding. When we arrived, there was no one in sight. Having resisted the urge to hop on the horses for a self-guided tour around the region, we found another way to satiate that urge…
After that we got bored of playing horsey and started playing some caveman bocce…
Finally the cowboys returned and we each mounted a horse to ride into the wilderness, except when I gleefully hopped onto my horse, I ended up on a mule instead. I got gypped.
His dominance must have been the donkey side, as Charlie kept glancing left and right and stopped every 30 seconds to eat the surrounding foliage, holding up the line. When I tried to steer him, he appeared to be on autopilot and ignored my signals. When I left him alone, he ended up walking through the bushes instead.
With everyone’s legs cramped up at this point, Karen assumed a funky posture to the relief the tension…
Then we had some BBQ dinner, sang some songs, and hit the sacks. The next morning, we were revitalized as we attended the Sunday service…
Well, some of us were revitalized anyway… For more pictures, go to the Tent Camping album!
Sure was fun seeing the pictures. Lake Wenatchee State Park was where I last went camping on the summer church campout ECC has. This was 2000 with YAF, which I was in at the time.