Camping with Friends

We like to camp, this is established. So we decided to camp with a friend of mine from work, Mr. Steven Skonieczny, whose name is impossible to spell. Steven has a great family with 3 awesome kids who we felt would get along great with my kids. So we headed to Desoto State Park in Fort Payne, Alabama. Did I mention that it was the Worlds Longest Yard Sale Weekend? It was. That sucked. Both financially and for travel.

We had fun the first night. Steven had some kind of odd contraption on the back of his car that carried all of his tent gear and his bikes. This turned out to be heavy. Heavy enough to bend his trailer hitch bar and it made me laugh when he pulled in. Eventually we all got set up and the kids started doing their thing.

Owen getting kindling

The older folk are chillaxing

Caden and Abby running around

Obligatory picture of me making a stupid face

Obligatory picture of Owen making an attacking zombie face

Fun with light thingies.

The making of the Olympic Rings

More engineering

Adults getting involved

Look what 5 kids and a few drunk adults can do

So the fun continued. We made a fire using my tried and true charcoal, and Steven's tried and true blow torch. It's a miracle that we don't just blow shit up. So, the adults consumed their beverages, and the kids ran around. At one point, I went to do something (I can't remember) and ended up rolling in the bushes. Not long after that I went to sleep.

Oh lord, drunk Greg go Boom

This is how things looked to me, so I went night night

Kids playing with fire

My foot

So that ended the first night. Well, it did for me, and since I'm writing this, that's what matters. Someone could've discovered the cure for cancer, but I would've missed it because I was drunk and tired, so I went to sleep. Life is tough people.

So the next day we woke up and started the next day of fun. This day would be full of all sorts of fun activities. We started the day fixing Steven's totally jacked up trailer rig. It was all bent to hell. Luckily I actually had some tools and he managed to fix things so that he could focus on having fun. My wife took the debit card, hit the ATM, and started on the yard sale trail. On the way in she saw an Alabama (the team, not the state) quilt and she made it her mission to find it and buy it. She eventually did, and it is sitting in my damn office gathering dust like every other $120+ thing she has bought. While she was doing that, we continued getting the campsite in order. First I need to explain that Steven is very good at cooking things over a campfire. I am not. I do burgers. That's it. He did some crap for breakfast that looked incredible. I need a wife like Steven, just with less wiener and more biscuit.

Its Fixed

So once Kelley and Melissa returned with their expensive dust bunny, Steven and I headed to the camp store to get the low down on the area and the things to do. They told us about a swimming hole a little ways away so we gathered up the families and headed out. Once we got close, we found a police road block. Yes, we were in East Butt F**k Alabama, on a little road the size of my d**k, and they had a road block. Luckily we hadn't consumed too many adult beverages by that time (it was freaking noon) and we passed. My first thought was that they were looking for mexicans, but if they were, they just needed to go down the road to the swimming hole, because that's where they were. I know that sounds racist, but it's true so it can't be racist.

So we started in one swimming hole, but it was kind of nasty and full of leaves. I fell on some river rocks and dented my thigh! Then we discovered a better place a little farther down stream and headed over there. We enjoyed that area and had a nice little relaxing time in the river. There were some Mexicans on a swing that Steven and I checked out. The water was quite shallow so we decided to forgo the fun of breaking bones on the swing. That didn't stop a few rednecks from trying it though. Rednecks are stupid. Eventually some Mexican scuba divers showed up. We laughed. This is mainly because the "river", creek thing was maybe 15 feet deep. Also, they power smoked 5 cigarettes before hitting the water. I'm guessing they were looking for buried treasure, like never-ending green cards. I know that sounds racist, but, again, if it's true it isn't racist. This blog software sucks.

Hairy backed gorilla

Icky Part

Im sexy and I know it

I don't have a clue

The Skonieczny mobile

Steven go tinkle

Hi Me

Things

After the "swimming hole" we decided to the swimming pool in the state park. That meant fighting back through the yard sale traffic, but we did find a little hole in the wall bbq place that Kelley thought was the bomb. Steven said it was okay, but he is a champion rib maker or something so he gets all uppity about his bbq.

Kaden

Me and Owen sharing some ice cream

Caden jumping off the board

And then Kaden jumping....

Big splash a coming

Kaden jumping to his sissy

Steven doing "the Jesus", walking on water

Big Air

Kids playing

Owen going off the board

Hi Jessica

Standby for attack

Who knows.... DOUCHE

Kaden and the ape

Hi

Eventually the weather moved in and we headed back to the campsite. I made burgers (naturally), and Steven made some potatoes that tasted awesome. After that we sent the kids off to play and the adults gathered around the fire and consumed some adult beverages.Overall we had a lot of fun. The kids got along great and we all had loads of fun. I know that the Howards are looking forward to camping with the Skonieczny's again. Perhaps we will go to Monte Sano and do some serious Mountain Biking!

Couponing

Buddy!