{"id":3700,"date":"2018-07-02T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T00:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2018-07-02T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T00:09:54","slug":"holiday-warm-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/holiday-warm-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Warm Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow that weekend was exhausting.\u00a0 That’s one of those where you need to get back to work to rest up from having fun.\u00a0 We took off east-bound on Friday, destination Sly Park Lake<\/a> for a little camping trip.\u00a0 The facility is very nice, if grossly over-priced.\u00a0 I guess I should just accept that everything out here is grossly over-priced and get on with it.\u00a0 Some things just really jump out though, like the camping prices.\u00a0 They gouged us $50 per night, and that was an unimproved tent spot.\u00a0 No electricity, no water, and a two-door outhouse.\u00a0 If that wasn’t bad enough, they dinged us an extra $15 per night for a second vehicle!\u00a0 Geez man.\u00a0 Apparently they can get away with it though, as the place was completely full.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, it’s always completely full, we had to book our site last year.\u00a0 Well, cost aside, we had a great time.\u00a0 Our friends Michael & Alaina joined us and we proceeded to… well…. camp.\u00a0 The lack of amenities made it feel almost Float-Trip-esque, and that was compounded by setting up my ancient relic of a tent from my floating days.\u00a0 Munkirs and I got that tent somewhere around 1991, and we got a lot of use out of it.\u00a0 It probably hasn’t been set up in the last 7 or 8 years though, and I was a little nervous that it would just go up in a puff of dust when I unrolled it.\u00a0 It was in fine shape though, if a little musty.\u00a0 Luckily I anticipated that situation and had a bottle of Febreeze handy for\u00a0 good dousing.<\/p>\n

Saturday brought more camping.\u00a0 We started the day off with a solid casserole, appropriately prepared over the fire in foil packets.\u00a0 For that matter, we cooked pretty much everything all weekend in foil packets…\u00a0 Kind of hard to go wrong.\u00a0 After breakfast we took the short walk from the campground to the lake (about 20 yards) and set up the big island float for a day of relaxing.\u00a0 Just like last weekend, we managed to turn it into an entire day.\u00a0 I guess we’re pretty easily amused.\u00a0 We bobbed around the lake all day, then enjoyed a nice dinner of bbq ribs.\u00a0 In foil packets.<\/p>\n

Sunday we got up and ate breakfast, then packed up camp.\u00a0 We were getting a little grungy from all the dust, and a nice shower at home was in order.\u00a0 Not to mention, the temp was going up rapidly, it was obvious that it was going to turn into a scorcher.\u00a0 For evening entertainment we had some friends over for a “vertical tasting.”\u00a0 That’s some kind of “thing” out here.\u00a0 Over some amount of time, we’ve collected six different vintages of the same wine from one of our favorite places out here, so we all sat around and tasted each and then discussed in detail the different nuances of each year.\u00a0 I think we all agreed “Yep, they taste like wine.\u00a0 Red wine.”\u00a0 It was fun though, and I grilled up some ribeyes that came out pretty well to go along with it.<\/p>\n\n\t\t