Camping trip and Duckasaurous attack! 8-7-10

 Many of you know I go camping and do outdoorsy stuff a lot. But many of you don't know that. It's quite funny to hear people say I'm such a sport for going camping and tolerating it for my husband or that it's nice to see me getting out of the makeup world to go "rough it". Um...while I love makeup and fashion, it is a very small part of my life. I've been camping since a I was VERY little and it's just a normal thing that I do and enjoy so very much. While some girls are afraid of dirt, don't like doing things outside and couldn't possibly imagine not bathing for a week, I don't care. Life is not all about makeup, fashion and material things. It is so nice to take a real break from the concrete jungle and be surrounded by nature and wildlife. It's refreshing and calming to me.
So keep in mind I'm not a dumb, pretty girl with a blog. I can put up a tent easily, build fires, hike my butt off and look cute doing it. :-P

Tyler and Emerald (on our way to the camp site)

The dudes cutting wood for the fire

we hiked out to Cub Lake

Have you ever seen so many lily pads?!

dragonfly

Duckasaurous!

They wanted our food! This guy was nipping at Jason's buttons.

Uh huh...waiting for the right moment to steal his pringles!

I dunno what he was doing...playing dead maybe?

He was standing on my hat!

Emerald getting pictures

Hee hee the Duckasaurous was harassing her now!

Duckasaurous! (taken by emerald)

Please don't hurt us all mighty Duckasaurous! (taken by emerald)

me trying to scare off Duckasaurous! (taken by emerald)

mountain view from the lake (taken by emerald)

Bear claw marks

go all the way up the tree

Once we got back to the camp site, it started to rain so we hung out in the Kelty carport for a while to let it pass.

We were just chatting...

then this little dude kept coming in to look for food. Was hard to photograph the him. He was so fast!

The rain died down enough for us to go start a fire.

Tyler and Emerald

Apparently he likes eggs

naughty dude!

I guess the eggs weren't enough as he then went after the trash!

Bad boy!

Pretty pic taken by Emerald

heading back home

~BLIX

Camping Trip pics from 7-16-10

I meant to post these last month but was busy and then forgot about them. So here they are, late!

Us riding the motorcycle on our way to a hiking trail

I took pics along the way

we're going too fast!

agh! we're gonna die! not...

the bike was sputtering so we stopped so Jason could work on it

my shadow...i look like i'm going to war or something

stopped at one trailhead

fixing my helmet head and not realizing he was taking pictures

warning!

Jason

us

this trail was too easy so he got the map out and realized we were on the wrong trail! so we took off right away to the correct trail.

just got on the right trail

this was a cool resting point. great view.

resting and drinking water

us

moi sitting near a long drop off

Jason posing for me

why do I look like a grumpy kid who doesn't want to be there? I was having a great time!

took an artsy fartsy pic

so he got one of me

he wanted to take pics but I was trying to reapply my spf lipstick. so i annoyingly made a fish face.

the scenery here was so gorgeous

don't get too close to the edge

stopped to rest a bit

part of the trail

more trail

I had just turned around to see what he was doing, "wait wha..." I took my hiking boots off to air out my feet.

i'm a dork

got back to the camp sight. me toes felt like vienna sausages

me and my honey bunny

he looks so tired

naughty boy with grabby hands

i look surprisingly great for not bathing in 2 days and just getting back from hiking for several hours...wow.

I was wearing Physicians Formula Healthy Wear SPF 50 Powder in Translucent Light and Collection 2000 Glam Crystals Dazzling Gel liner (don't remember which one) and obviously filled in my brows. I have to or I look like an alien without brows! I was also wearing Avon ULTRA COLOR RICH Cool Bliss Lipstick SPF 15 in Nude on Ice.

i surprised him with the camera. looks like a scared little boy

Heh heh

That's all folks!

~BLIX