Weekend Getaway

For the long holiday weekend, Heidi and I headed out to L.L. Stub Stewart State Park. We rented one of the cabins that are at the park. The weather was so wonderful, we could have camped in a tent, though we had no way of knowing it since we made the reservations months ago. As you can see, we took the bikes to explore the trails in the park. Let me just say that the weather being dry doesn't mean that the trails are going to be dry. We were a muddy mess by the time we got back to camp. The clay soil out there is impossibly slick when it wet, so it made for an interesting adventure.

The rest of the weekend was spent relaxing, and one of us nursing a nasty bruise from the bike ride. We played games, of which I lost all of. We watched a couple movies and a few episodes of Heroes. Pretty much just took some time to kick back and do nothing. The most stressful time of the weekend was trying to figure out how to cook dinner on Sunday night. We had a plan to cook some teriyaki chicken and some rice. The only problem was that someone had forgotten to turn off the burner on the stove she was using at lunch time. We were getting ready to cook dinner when this was discovered. We weighed our options and decided to try to get a fire going. I scrounged up some wood, and with some work we got just enough of a fire to cook our chicken and boil some water for the instant rice. We almost ended up eating bread and butter or a yogurt for dinner.

The park is nice and new, but somewhat uninspiring. I imagine we'll make it back there to check out the trails in the summer, but probably won't camp there again.

-G