Rocky Mountain High

This weekend we (we being my family + a few tag-a-longs) went camping up in the Uintah Mountains, by Marsh Lake to be more specific. Run down of the bests and the worsts of my 4th of July.

10 things I loved: (no particular order)

• 14 mile hike to the Big Meadow/Beaver Lake
• The shower I took in the trailer after said hike
  
• Watching Maggie swim and the other dogs (Sammi and Izzie) attack her
• Canoing out to the Heeb-Jeebs
• Playing a ton of Nertz
• Eating Raspberry/Strawberry/Blackberry/Rhubarb pies made by yours truly
• Delicious, delicious foods
• Cheating. And then failing, failing horribly.
• Sitting around the campfire and telling tall tales
• Watching three boys change a flat tire on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere
  

10 things I hated: (no particular order)

• Mosquitoes
• DEET
• Sunscreen
• The sunscreen/DEET film over my entire body
• Mosquito bites
• Spraying the dogs with DEET when they hated it
• Being sprayed with DEET ("Mama, I hate it!")
• Gigantor flies
• Having everything taste faintly like DEET
  
• The diseases (cancer, etc.) I will now get from having all that DEET in my bloodstream

These are just some of the many reasons I will look fondly back at the memories of this weekend as I return to my life as a city slicker.