{"id":1486,"date":"2015-12-03T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2015-12-03T22:29:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T03:29:43","slug":"more-camping-success-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=1486","title":{"rendered":"More Camping Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

No joke, we went camping over Thanksgiving weekend and it was awesome!\u00a0 Everything is extra good while camping.\u00a0 Hot drinks are great, all of the food you make is so satisfying, and fire is the best.\u00a0 We were not cold at all in the tent, even though the lows were below freezing.\u00a0 We have two sleeping bags that zip together \ud83d\ude09 and we took two enormous fleece blanks and sewed them together into a big sack to line the sleeping bag just to beef it up a little bit.<\/p>\n

Our fellow campers on this trip included our people, Jenn and Wouter, along with Jenn’s friends from college, Mike and Becca, and Wouter’s little brother Gideon and his wife Genevieve.\u00a0 Also the dogs: Ziggy, Tom, Tortilla, Simon, and Batdog!<\/p>\n

We went to a campground near Portland. (Traffic was awful!)\u00a0 At this campground, you can’t actually drive your car to the campground so they provide carts to move your crap and, oh boy, did Will and I have a lot of crap.\u00a0 The trek is about a half mile, which I don’t think is too bad, but Will did most of the pushing and pulling so if you really want to know about it I guess you’ll have to ask him.<\/p>\n

The reason why we had so much crap is that we always bring way too much food to these kinds of things, we had never camped this cold before so we brought extra warm things (that actually turned out to be unnecessary) and we brought all the equipment to deep fry a turkey out there in the woods.<\/p>\n

You heard right, we deep fried a turkey.\u00a0 It’s actually pretty dangerous.\u00a0 Go watch some videos of exploding turkey fryers on Youtube.\u00a0 I’ll wait…<\/p>\n

Welcome back.\u00a0 Anyway, we knew how dangerous it was so we did a lot of research, watched some instructional videos (thanks Alton Brown!) and took all of the precautions.\u00a0 The turkey turned out pretty decent.\u00a0 Remember how everything tastes better when you’re camping?\u00a0 Everything was delicious.\u00a0 One of the things I’m thankful for this year is rosemary in mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n

(And now pictures Will took of the turkey process!)
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\"Boiling<\/a><\/p>\n

Fear the oil
\n\"Joni<\/a><\/p>\n

Fried turkey
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\n\"Fried<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite the cold, the weather was really lovely.\u00a0 And by that I mean it was SUNNY, which was a Thanksgiving miracle.\u00a0 When we weren’t making and eating food, we were just chatting, poking at the fire, petting dogs, or playing games.\u00a0 There’s this game called Snake Oil, where you try to sell products.\u00a0 You get cards with random words on them, you choose two and try to describe the product and get someone to buy it.\u00a0 These people were really good at it.\u00a0 The laughter started to hurt after a little bit.<\/p>\n

There’s just something about fire.\u00a0 It’s probably the whole heat and light thing.\u00a0 If you go camping at the end of November, I do recommend bringing a lot of firewood.\u00a0 We basically had at least a little one going from when we got up to when we went to bed.\u00a0 It’s so cold and dark away from it.\u00a0 The feeling of relief I felt whenever I got back to the fire after going to the bathroom in the dark was a little ridiculous.\u00a0 I’m glad I never had to get out of the tent to go.<\/p>\n

I guess packing up and hauling everything back to the car was a real pain.\u00a0 At least that’s what Will told me because us girls just let the boys do it, while we chatted around our dying fire.\u00a0 I get a little bummed out at the end of things like this, but I look forward to the next time.\u00a0 Will got all our crap back in the car and we said goodbye to our people.\u00a0 Traffic was awful again, but we were glad to get home on Saturday so we would have Sunday to recover.\u00a0 Then it was back to work on Monday.<\/p>\n

(And now some pictures Jenn took that we totally stole:)
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\"Joni<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Putting<\/a><\/p>\n

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No joke, we went camping over Thanksgiving weekend and it was awesome!\u00a0 Everything is extra good while camping.\u00a0 Hot drinks are great, all of the food you make is so satisfying, and fire is the best.\u00a0 We were not cold at all in the tent, even though the lows were below freezing.\u00a0 We have two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}