I was sitting here thinking about how we can make the Marble Mountain Trek more extreme: bring one pair of clothes, take only rice and seasonings, trap and kill a few more animals, and generally go wild for like 10 days( lord of the rings style). Then I remembered how we all try to pack in a little more from home each time, crammed into our packs, and more and more items end up at Shelley Lake then there would be at Black Bird. Well, then that's when I laughed out loud, because I remembered that Danny tried to go extreme without a tent last year and ended up in the Zuro clan tent, tucked in between Carter and Calvin, he thought anything would be better than being attacked by the prehistoric ants and flying insects at 5 am. Well he was terribly wrong, not only did we not fit in a four man tent, but Carter itched himself to death all night and I kept reaching over Danny to beat him every 10 minutes until Danny decided to hold onto his hands and sort of lay on top of him to stop the scratching madness when all of the sudden, he yelped and Carter sat up to puke on top of him, and all over our sleeping bags. He actually got four people with it and I was crying and laughing and dry heaving at the same time! I used bum wipes and roll on deodorant and Dannys head lamp to clean it up so we could survive the rest of the night. So maybe Lord of the Rings style will have to be an adult only trip!
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That did make me laugh very much out loud. I still have Carter's spaghetti puke stench engraved in my mind. That under-arm deoderant really came through though and drowned out the lingering aroma of bile and meatballs. Note to self......bring my own tent next time.
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