Itchy, itchy, scratchy, scratchy!

Friday night we headed out to go camping with friends.  The plan was to leave at 4:30, but of course, it was closer to 6 by the time we got on the road.  Though we were only going about 40 minutes away, it took us closer to 90 minutes to find where we were going because new logging roads had been built since the map book had been published and we got a little turned around.  So by the time we got unloaded and had our nutritious dinner of hot dogs/veggie dogs, we were being swarmed by bugs.  If you had the ability to zoom in on my face in this photo you would see that I do not look at all impressed.

I am a cottage kid.  I grew up with the luxury of having a family cottage that we went to every weekend of every summer.  I know - I'm sooooo lucky!  At the cottage I spent the majority of my time outside, and love the outdoors, but on those weekends when the bugs were really bad, I could take refuge indoors with some board games.  There's no indoors in camping, but being that I was the sole cottage kid amongst 3 campers, I was not going to be the one to give up first!

On Saturday, we woke up to a beautiful day, and still lots of bugs, but with hopes that they would die down if a breeze picked up or as the sun got warmer.  And indeed they did, but already everyone else was talking of packing up early before they returned in the evening.

Around 5pm, they really started to pick up again, so we packed up and returned home a day early.  I think I met my quota for bug bites - I had over 30 on one knee!

Still, it was a great weekend.  It was nice to have one beautiful day outdoors, and one day at home to be lazy and get stuff done around the house before the BF's family came over for Father's day.

I went out for an easy 5K and was glad it said easy on the schedule today.  I was feeling sluggish!  Could it be from all the blood loss???