Monday, July 23, 2007

"so called camping"

Headed north in the old faithful '89 car, we set off for a camping trip this past weekend. Sam, his wife Amy, and my two roomies, Kelly and Brooke, and myself headed out of ChiangMai. Little did we know it wasn't going to be a normal camping trip. A lady we know had drawn out a map for us .... a drawing it was. It reminded me of a drawing a child could have done. Three hours in the back of the car can be a real bonding time.





The roads were crazy steep and there were at least 12 switchback turns that we had do to. There were times when us girls thought we are not going to make it....that we were just going to slid back down the mountian. The air was at least 15 degrees cooler. For the first time since early January, we actually got to use our hoodies!

We were all a little tired from the ride. We finally arrived and scoped out our hobbit-like cabin. There were six beds all alinged along the wall. It was quite funny. Here is what our cabin looked like.

The inside of our cabin.





The place were we stayed was some sort of agricultural project. They had a bunch of different types of gardens there.





This is Brooke and I...upon arriving Kelly, Brooke, and I walked around in the rain to see the layout of the area surrounding us.

We stayed up that night playing card games and talking. In the morning, after breakfast Kelly and I went for a walk to check out some of their gardens. We found the bonsai garden. It was amazing. There were so many different rock stair cases and winding paths. The only bummer is that we were running out of time to explore since we had to get back on the road. Here are pictures from our exploration.





It would be nice to go back sometime and spend more time hiking around and looking in the bonsai garden, but it was a nice little get away weekend.


We took a different route home less steep and alittle more senic.The road was still very curvy and Kelly started to feel alittle ill. So we ended up pulling over for a 10 minute break.

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On the way home we were all in our own thoughts and cutting the silence Kelly very enthusiasticly said "OH, is that an elephant!!!???". Low and behold there in the meadow were several elephants. It was pretty cool.



Overall a good night trip though next time we are doing the real camping!!!

1 comment:

Katie said...

:( I wish I was there with you guys. Glad that you had a great time. Give Sam a great big hug from me. :)