We're campers!

Done camped. Sunday we spent shopping for supplies and arranging and packing to the point of sore leg exhaustion. Monday I woke up at 4:15am to be ready for a 6am meet at my house to load the truck and go. We were on the road just before 7 and 7 stops and 8 hours later we were at Courtright Reservoir. Eric had been there before and said it was awesome but I was really skeptical because there are no bathrooms and we were planning to camp "on the side of the road." Yeah, no thanks. We ended up pretty much on the side of the road but just far enough away that shlepping our shit in was a huge exhausting pain in the ass. Fortunately, when you're camping you're all giddy and high, like, 'Who cares, I'd rather carry all this stuff really far than be near people, yeah this is gonna be great!' And it was actually. We got a sweet spot right between pine forest and sandy beach. Perfectly sunny and shady and breezy and scenic and all.
The boys fished a lot and I swam in the lake and read and cooked and napped in the sun. And did dishes and drank beer and lit fires. And I got a flip flop tan, YAY!

Monday lunch: I had hollowed out a big round sourdough loaf and packed it full of meats and cheeses and pimiento olives and pepperoncinis the night before we left and then pressed it under some heavy stuff in the cooler. We stopped in McKinley Grove and ate it and drank really cold cans of Corona and Adam said it was the best pie he'd ever had because he doesn't like sugar.

Monday dinner: Marinated carne asada on the mini-Weber with corn tortillas, chunky avocados with tomato and lime juice, red and green salsa, pico de gallo and a variety of hot sauces. The boys ate 2 or 3 rounds of that and then realized we could add cheese and melt them on the grill so then we started over and had 2 or 3 more.

Tuesday breakfast: Eggs scrambled with potatoes and onions with bacon and bacon fat fried toast.

Tuesday lunch: 2 panfried wild rainbow trout caught by Adam and Eric

Tuesday dinner: A free for all of hot dogs, grilled cheese, chicken wings...

Wednesday breakfast: Toads in a hole with bacon and hot sauce

Wednesday lunch: Chicken wings (from Vallarta already marinated big fat wings, so good, highly recommended. I will be eating them again very very soon)

Wednesday dinner: Grilled rib eyes, smashed potatoes with butter and sour cream and sauteed green beans

Thursday breakfast: Banana pancakes with butter and syrup

Thursday lunch: In-n-out

Add to that some crackers, chips, roasted marshmallows, nuts, Sunmaid raisin bread, peanut butter, jelly and honey and you get the idea. Not too many food pictures but really, when you're cooking camping there's enough to deal with without having to find your camera too, right?