a tale of misery

Hey ho happy readers! A whopping 60% of poll takers rightly thought that Brian and Caden (pictured here the next morning) would make it through the night due to Navy Seal Training. A smaller 10% expected a call at 3 a.m., and 30% said hot dogs were sure to do them in. They lived through the hot dogs, darkness, frigid night, and coyotes. Many things were learned on this trip, probably first and for most NEVER tell anyone where you are survival camping. You will be opening yourselves for "friends" (No names mentioned - Scott Newman) to don their camouflage, sneak up on the unsuspecting survival campers (focused on starting a fire without matches) and scare them out of their wits. Heh, heh, heh. They also learned that you will lose a lot of heat into the ground. The survival blankets ("we looked like large baked potato's," quips Brian) did an adequate job of holding in the heat. Insulated sleeping pads should be arriving Tuesday. Brian rated this character building experience up with charter boat fishing (see "dickeybirds previous posts ). Caden suggests bringing a sleeping bag, and to not attempt survival camping unless you are a serious outdoors person. By all rights, we should have receive a call at 3 a.m., however the raucous laughter of my Mom and myself as we dropped them off "without sleeping bags", ha ha ha..ringing in his ears and there was NO WAY he would call me.

'til next post. ei