Clave always celebrates his birthday on the longest day of the year. This year we celebrated it in Alaskan style by going camping. Of course, there was no need for flashlights.
We went about 45 minutes outside of town to Lake Eklutna in the Chugach State park. Jared had gone earlier to stake us out a spot. And it was good he did so, because the camp ground was full by the time we got there. We camped next to Tracy, an old free spirit. She has a tradition of drinking and eating special brownies each year to bring in the solstice. She was pretty freindly though and regaled stories about grabbing other women's boobs at bars, and an internet friend that she made who was in a wheel chair, and would sling her bag of pee at people when she got rowdy.
Neil and I made potatoes and chilli for dinner, and I had the obligatory s'more and some peach pie that I made with the little pocket cookers over the fire. It was a lot of fun. We hung out around the fire until around 1 in the morning, and it was still quite light when we went to bed. (The first picture was taken at midnight without a flash--which is why it's a bit blurry)
THis was also Banjo's first camping trip, so he celebrated by eating all of the sticks and bark he could find (which was a lot). Then at night when we went to bed with Banjo in the tent he decided to barf all over my sleeping mat and the bottom of the tent. It was quite gross. I used Neil's shirt to clean it up, but one wasn't enough. So, I used his undershirt too. Then in the morning Banjo found the shirts and carried them over to Kari and Jared's tent as a little present.
The lake was really beautiful. We think we want to go back and go kayaking and/or biking.
Happy birthday Clave!
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