The Zereps

::singing:: we’re goin’ campin’ now, we’re on our way! we’re gonna climb up a mountain and run and jump and play! ::/singing::

at least that’s what we thought we were going to do. the pugs wanted to show eric some appreciation for father’s day, so i planned a camping trip for this past weekend, on short notice, mind you. i tried to get reservations for a few campgrounds in rocky mountain national park, but it was all booked up, not surprising since this was wednesday. 😉 i found a little campground several miles out of estes park that had a few vacancies, so i got us a site there. it looked cute on the website, i swear!
after the hustle and bustle of packing and getting sally subi back from midas (needed new brakes….bleh!) we hit the road with visions of campfires and mountain lakes and that proverbial “rocky mountain high.”

our dreams were cut a little short. as soon as we arrived in camp it was glaringly apparent that this wasn’t a secluded and rugged campground. there were lots of people in a small space surrounded by vacation homes, and most horribly–civilization. 🙁 our camp site, which we didn’t get to pick out, was roughly the size of our living room and kitchen combined, and had VERY close neighbors on both sides, a fence behind us, and somebody’s vacation home within yards.

we attempted to make the best of it, and enjoyed cooking outside and having a campfire. sally subi provided the accommodations, and i must say, they were quite comfy. the dogs enjoyed themselves immensely by rolling around in the dirt and lounging in the grass and barking at passerby (which there were many of). however, we ended up coming home a day early, due to the whole close neighbors/ugly/nothing to do nature of the place.

even though we were sorely disappointed in the campground we still had a nice little time. 🙂 but we’ve learned our lesson. next time we’re going somewhere with actual wilderness around and wildlife. i say it’s not camping unless there are pit toilets (or none)!

so check out the album by clicking on the picture below!

for photos of The Bud and Pupcake, see jabba’s site.

spurred along by eric’s shoutbox comment, i have decided to share just how mundane we’ve been as of late.

we went thrift shopping this last weekend where i was able to add to my quirky mug collection, my drinkin’ mug collection (canning jars with handles), and some various other small items.

several hours were spent pulling weeds and baking in the sun after receiving a ‘weed warning’ from our hoa.

quality time was spent with our crazy dogs. leia is becoming a very fast runner and has also acquired several football moves to keep toys away from jabba. she says she wants to be a cage-fighter ‘somewhere in northern alberta’ when she grows up. jabba was unavailable for comment.

we watched ‘red dragon’, ‘hannibal’, and ‘hannibal rising’ over the last couple days. fun times….we also watched ‘manhunter’, the 80’s moving (staring a young ‘gil grisom’ from csi!) that was an older version of ‘red dragon’. it was alright. ::shrug:: now i want to read the books.

and i saw ‘pirates of the caribbean: at world’s end’ yesterday. it would have been better without so much crazy ‘duh duh duh dun dun dun’ music and i didn’t like the big cgi scenes, and what the frack was that guitar solo about? might have been better if it weren’t so overblown-disney-ish, but then again, that’s part of the appeal (along with depp, of course).

so there you have it. 😀