Camel's Hump, 2nd Edition

I'm back from my trip!

The weekend went by way too quickly. :)

Thursday I got to meet the lovely sassy_fae and catsarah, who spent the night here with fearsclave, giggling and cuddling the cats, who were all too pleased to get the attention.

Friday we were up at the crack of dawn, and stumbled tiredly into the car which was crammed to the gills with the girls' stuff. I thought I had overpacked my red duffel bag, but upon seeing the amount of gear they had brought, I felt considerably better.

The trip down was uneventful, except for a wrong turn somewhere near Lacolle, but luckily the girls had a GPS with them, and so We had no trouble at the border, despite succumbing to a fit of hilarity right before going through customs, as fearsclave decided to have a bit of fun at our expense: "Please excuse the immodesty of my wives. Their burquas are in the trunk covering the AK47s." (No, he didn't actually say that to the border guard) The guard was a bit brusque with us until I mentioned that I was a dispatcher for the RCMP, at which point we got a big smile and she waved us on our way.

We made it to raven_albion's and kilted_omalley's by mid-morning, where bodhifox and aliyna were waiting, and went on our way to obtain breakfast (extraordinarily yummy). We meandered into downtown Montpelier where we waited for the local hobby and sports shop where we picked up some fishing licenses and everyone else picked up various bits of tackle and gear, and we all headed out to fish in the Winooski river.

Fishing was awesome. I borrowed fearsclave's rod, and although I got my hook stuck a gajillion times in the bottom, losing two spoons in the process, I also managed to catch five eeny-weeny rainbow trout. I had a really good fishing day. Unfortunately the others didn't have as much luck, although bodhifox got in some very good fly fishing practice.

Dinner was a fantastic affair of Neapolitan salad, minestrone, and a chicken casserole, followed by pie, and generous quantities of extremely good alcohol. There was merriment and excitement, and to cap everything off thinkingoutlaw and mieszko finally made it from Delaware and joined us for the rest of dinner.

We sat around and laughed and chatted until everyone finally staggered off to bed. I got the sofa in the living room, which was very comfy but was unfortunately in the middle of all the action. I finally got to sleep around 01:30 or so, and slept soundly most of the night until about 09:00 the next morning.