Will it work now??
As I'm sitting here bored out of my freakin' mind and reluctant to unpack the car from camping, I thought I'd come on here and tell you all about the trip. It was fantabulous. For those of you that don't know, Tara and I (and Zoe) went camping at Copper Falls State Park near Ashland, WI.
To start, I had been watching the weather forecast for days prior to the trip. All week weather.com had been saying a 40% chance of rain/t-storms Friday and a 30% chance Saturday and Sunday. Well Friday morning, I woke up and checked it again, and much to my surprised the forecast had been changed considerably. Friday had stayed the same, and Sunday was changed to just cloudy with a 20% chance of rain, but Saturday was changed to a 70% chance of rain, rain all morning and then thunderstorms, possibly severe, in the evening. So then, we pondered whether or not to even go if it was just going to rain all weekend. Well, after some deliberation we decided to just go, after all the planning there was almost an obligation.
Friday:
Tara arrived in EC at about 3:30 in the afternoon. We finished packing up my car and set out on our 3 hour trip to Copper Falls. We arrived at Copper Falls State Park and checked in, I had made reservations for the weekend. The events that occured in the office of the park were probably the most entertaining thing I've seen in quite some time. We went inside the office, I had already paid for the site when I reserved it online, but I needed a state park pass for my car. So I decided to get the annual one, I had misplaced my wallet so Tara was paying for it with her credit card. She gave her card to the woman working at the desk and the woman swiped it, something came up on the screen that left her looking befuddled, she kind of looked at the machine then at the card, glanced up at us and then back at the machine. She decided to hit cancel and swipe it again. Once again the same thing came up on the screen. This time she said something to us. Apparently the screen said CV-ID which is the three digit code on the back of your card also called a CV2-ID number. She was so confused by this that she even processed what she read wrong, she looked at CV-ID and read "See ID." She turned Tara's card over and ironically enough it said "See ID" so that clerks would look at her liscense to verify it was really her. Well the woman asked to see Tara's ID, she made sure the names matched, and then still looking confused look at us and said, "Will it work now?" So yes, she thought that somehow the credit card machine new that it said "See ID" on the back of the card and somehow it knew that she had looked at the ID and verified it really was Tara. Then we told her that it was probably the code on the back of the card which she put in and it worked. Her son, luckily he was there, helped her out a bit. I suppose this is one of those, "you had to be there" type of stories but honestly it took every bit of restraint I could muster to keep from laughing right in front of her. So, then we went to our site and set everything up, got some wood, started a fire, and eventually went to bed. Weather: No rain, it was wet in the morning so it must've rained overnight.
Saturday:
We woke up early and went for a walk on the main hiking trail that went along the falls. Here's one of the pictures we took:
Well, later on that day a guy came walking through the park giving everybody these pieces of paper that said there was a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 7pm. This was no more than a few minutes after one of us remarked at how nice out it was. Sunny and everything. Well we got everything pretty much ready in case it suddenly began raining and then went down to the beach to tan a little and possibly go in the water. Well, the tanning went well, for the half hour or so we were out there, but the water was colder than I had anticipated and I didn't quite make it waist deep. We hung around the campsite the rest of the day and nothing didn't do anything too terribly eventful. Although, I did forget something. After our walk to the falls we took a nap, I awoke suddenly to Tara yelling "Ryan!" I immediately sat up and through the screen on the tent saw a fawn or a small doe run through our campsite no more than a few feet next to Zoe who was tied up outside on her leash. Then a few minutes later the guy and his two sons that were in the next site were walking because they too had seen the deer and suddenly what must've been the mother came through. From the tent we couldn't see it but we heard it and then heard the boys exclaim, "Here comes a big one too!" That was pretty sweet, but not the last deer story from the day.
Saturday Night: We're sitting around the fire, Zoe was asleep on Tara's lap, and I was sitting there holding the flashlight so I could shine it at things in the woods as I like to do. Well we heard a bleeting, like that of a Doe. Thank you Deer Hunter II. (Otherwise I wouldn't have known what it was, see video games aren't useless). Anyway, I shined the flashlight in the general direction of the noise after we'd heard it for a while and sure enough there was a doe looking at us a little ways into the woods. She was not startled at all by us and I kept the flashlight right on her the whole time. She came down through the woods right to the back of our campsite, and then started going back into the woods on the other side of the tent, we got up and moved so we could see her. She never got scared and just kept walking away. It was crazy, and awesome.
Weather: Sunny almost all day, a few minutes of rain and cloudy, rained after we went to bed.
Sunday:
Went for a walk to some more falls, took Zoe with this time, 2.5 mile hike. Zoe walked the whole thing! Then I made cheeseburgers and we packed up camp so that we were out by the 3pm checkout time. We made the drive back to EC, went to dinner and then Tara left. Weather: Very Sunny and HOT. Very few clouds.
So, all in all it was a great weekend, the weather forecast was almost completely wrong, and that's one of the few times I've been really happy they were. I hope everyone had a good weekend. And don't forget...
Have a nice summer!
To start, I had been watching the weather forecast for days prior to the trip. All week weather.com had been saying a 40% chance of rain/t-storms Friday and a 30% chance Saturday and Sunday. Well Friday morning, I woke up and checked it again, and much to my surprised the forecast had been changed considerably. Friday had stayed the same, and Sunday was changed to just cloudy with a 20% chance of rain, but Saturday was changed to a 70% chance of rain, rain all morning and then thunderstorms, possibly severe, in the evening. So then, we pondered whether or not to even go if it was just going to rain all weekend. Well, after some deliberation we decided to just go, after all the planning there was almost an obligation.
Friday:
Tara arrived in EC at about 3:30 in the afternoon. We finished packing up my car and set out on our 3 hour trip to Copper Falls. We arrived at Copper Falls State Park and checked in, I had made reservations for the weekend. The events that occured in the office of the park were probably the most entertaining thing I've seen in quite some time. We went inside the office, I had already paid for the site when I reserved it online, but I needed a state park pass for my car. So I decided to get the annual one, I had misplaced my wallet so Tara was paying for it with her credit card. She gave her card to the woman working at the desk and the woman swiped it, something came up on the screen that left her looking befuddled, she kind of looked at the machine then at the card, glanced up at us and then back at the machine. She decided to hit cancel and swipe it again. Once again the same thing came up on the screen. This time she said something to us. Apparently the screen said CV-ID which is the three digit code on the back of your card also called a CV2-ID number. She was so confused by this that she even processed what she read wrong, she looked at CV-ID and read "See ID." She turned Tara's card over and ironically enough it said "See ID" so that clerks would look at her liscense to verify it was really her. Well the woman asked to see Tara's ID, she made sure the names matched, and then still looking confused look at us and said, "Will it work now?" So yes, she thought that somehow the credit card machine new that it said "See ID" on the back of the card and somehow it knew that she had looked at the ID and verified it really was Tara. Then we told her that it was probably the code on the back of the card which she put in and it worked. Her son, luckily he was there, helped her out a bit. I suppose this is one of those, "you had to be there" type of stories but honestly it took every bit of restraint I could muster to keep from laughing right in front of her. So, then we went to our site and set everything up, got some wood, started a fire, and eventually went to bed. Weather: No rain, it was wet in the morning so it must've rained overnight.
Saturday:
We woke up early and went for a walk on the main hiking trail that went along the falls. Here's one of the pictures we took:
Well, later on that day a guy came walking through the park giving everybody these pieces of paper that said there was a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 7pm. This was no more than a few minutes after one of us remarked at how nice out it was. Sunny and everything. Well we got everything pretty much ready in case it suddenly began raining and then went down to the beach to tan a little and possibly go in the water. Well, the tanning went well, for the half hour or so we were out there, but the water was colder than I had anticipated and I didn't quite make it waist deep. We hung around the campsite the rest of the day and nothing didn't do anything too terribly eventful. Although, I did forget something. After our walk to the falls we took a nap, I awoke suddenly to Tara yelling "Ryan!" I immediately sat up and through the screen on the tent saw a fawn or a small doe run through our campsite no more than a few feet next to Zoe who was tied up outside on her leash. Then a few minutes later the guy and his two sons that were in the next site were walking because they too had seen the deer and suddenly what must've been the mother came through. From the tent we couldn't see it but we heard it and then heard the boys exclaim, "Here comes a big one too!" That was pretty sweet, but not the last deer story from the day.
Saturday Night: We're sitting around the fire, Zoe was asleep on Tara's lap, and I was sitting there holding the flashlight so I could shine it at things in the woods as I like to do. Well we heard a bleeting, like that of a Doe. Thank you Deer Hunter II. (Otherwise I wouldn't have known what it was, see video games aren't useless). Anyway, I shined the flashlight in the general direction of the noise after we'd heard it for a while and sure enough there was a doe looking at us a little ways into the woods. She was not startled at all by us and I kept the flashlight right on her the whole time. She came down through the woods right to the back of our campsite, and then started going back into the woods on the other side of the tent, we got up and moved so we could see her. She never got scared and just kept walking away. It was crazy, and awesome.
Weather: Sunny almost all day, a few minutes of rain and cloudy, rained after we went to bed.
Sunday:
Went for a walk to some more falls, took Zoe with this time, 2.5 mile hike. Zoe walked the whole thing! Then I made cheeseburgers and we packed up camp so that we were out by the 3pm checkout time. We made the drive back to EC, went to dinner and then Tara left. Weather: Very Sunny and HOT. Very few clouds.
So, all in all it was a great weekend, the weather forecast was almost completely wrong, and that's one of the few times I've been really happy they were. I hope everyone had a good weekend. And don't forget...
Have a nice summer!
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