Puppy Rubi, my side kick Amanda and I set out on our camping execution Friday night after I was done work. With the Xterra loaded with 99% of borrowed camping goods (Thanks Mom xo), we were both excited to get out of the city to “rough” it.
It was a very hot and beautiful Friday. We arrived at our camp site around 6 pm and started setting up right away. Amanda’s new tent was pretty easily set up but the tent that I had was another story. We weren’t at all familiar with it and it was somewhat of an adventure to assemble but we rigged it up well enough so that it was sleep-able and work-able. (We found the exact same tent on a walk we took later in the evening that we took a picture of it. It actually helped haha!)
I set up my car-plug in air pump and hooked it up to my air mattress but it didn’t seem to be pumping up too quickly. After an hour of pumping it still didn't look “fat” so I called up Kristi and Don (who lived minutes away from where we were camping in the Town of Wabamun) and begged for pumped air assistance... after Don blew up the mattress with his air pump and lungs (love you long time xo) we discovered a large hole in the side. DOH! I was kinda sad and tried to figure out what I was going to sleep on... The Paskos’ remembered a foam mattress at good ol’ mom and dads. I had something to sleep on! I was at that point a “Happy Camper” and we headed back to the camp site.
Around 12 am we headed to our tents for bed. I was getting ready to crawl into my sleeping bag and I smelt something, something musky and wet... ‘err it was pee! I used my phone as light and saw that Rubi, AFTER being outside for almost 6 hours straight, had decided to pee on her bed as well as my pillow. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! I looked at Rubi cowering in the corner, SHE TOTALLY KNEW she fucked up. Grrr! (With annoyance and anger I beat the dog and kicked her outside of the tent for the night... kidding.) I threw the pee-pillow and pee-bed outside and used my hand sanitizer on the bottom of the tent to clean up the mess. Clean and no more pee smell – (YAY!) It was finally bed time. Rubi didn’t like the fact that she now had to sleep on the rock-bottomed tent and couldn’t seem to get comfortable - I laughed at her (really I did.) and went to sleep... later being woken up by her finding comfort refuge at my feet. (She’s lucky she’s so cute.)
Saturday morning I get a call from Kristi inviting us over for pancakes! Hellz yeah! (This was totally roughin’ it - shut up!) Amanda was sleepy so I left her in her tent. I had a shower and ate some yummy pancakes. Once we were finished we see Amanda walking up to the house. She found her way to their house and had only been there once! That girl gots skills!
I lathered myself in a bath of SPF 50 and we hit up Wabamun beach, it was SOOO busy! I tried to get Rubi use to the water and after dragging her into the boat launch area (hehe!) she seemed to warm up to it. We played some SloPitch and laid around for a bit eating peas and cherries (wicked combo if you ask me). After heading back to our site, eating and taking a short nap we headed back to the beach to meet up with some friends. Ignoring the "NO DOG" signs and seeing many other people bringing their dogs on the beach we headed down to the water with Rubi and the kids. We all played in the water and after several minutes let Rubi off her leash. Most of the people had headed home because of the incoming storm so it seemed to be a good idea at the time. After laughing and playing with Rubi in the water, watching her jump around and play she decided to... squat down and start to poop IN THE WATER! OMG! *shame* (Why IN the water??) All I could think of is the scene in Marley & Me where Marley took a poop in the water and thinking “THIS is why dogs aren’t allowed on the beach!” There were several gasps and some laughter from onlookers. Le sigh. I attempted to “catch” the poop with a poo bag but had little to no luck with that. That was the end of that play time; it was fun while it lasted.
The sky started to get ugly and the wind picked up... I was getting weather update texts from The Weather Network “Severe thunder storm warnings” and the sky didn’t lie. We decided to pack ‘er up and head home before we were stuck in the middle of the storm in our dinky little tents. (After seeing all the damage this morning, I was glad we decided to call it quits.)
The drive home was a little scary, it was hard to see the road and the sky was constantly lit up from the lightening - but we made it! We ran into the house leaving the car still packed and jumped into our snuggley warm beds.
Overall, I had a great time. It was nice to get away and nothing was going to set me back. I’m always up for an adventure – even with little dirty side adventures. LOL!
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