Garner was so awesome! It was so relaxing, a perfect 3 night, 4 day break from work, Austin, etc. It was gorgeous the entire time we were there, minus the last night. It poured. I'm talking torential downpour, worried about flooding pour. Ok, maybe not the flooding part but you get my drift. We got there on Saturday, set up our tents (after not getting our spot due to a meth addict that was "camping" in her truck and had lost her cat - thats' another story) went driving around to see the entire place, and relaxed. Monica and Tim got there later that evening and we cooked dinner and just sat around the bon fire. Sunday we got up and hiked, took the dogs to the water, played plenty of cornhole and hung out. Monday we did about the same, with a little more hiking down by our own campsite where the river was more shallow and the dogs could run around easier. Charlie actually swam in the Frio! I was so proud of him, we bought him a $15 water toy and thought maybe he'd chase that into the river. Nope, he wanted sticks more than anything and actually went into water over his head and had to swim out several times.
Like I mentioned before, Monday night it POURED. We knew there was a chance of rain so we picked up everything off of our picnic table that shouldn't get wet and waiting out teh first little bit of rain. Once that ended we all though, "Hey, that wasn't so bad" and continued cooking dinner and drinking and having a great time. Little did we know that was the least of it. We had just finished dinner and the skies literally opened up and poured on us. The ground had water standing all over it, there was mud everywhere and we learned that the zipper door on our tent leaks! Charlie was already zipped in the tent when the rain started and had to wait out the storm by himself in there while G, Tim, Justin and I huddled under the canopy above the picnic table. Hindsight, standing under a canopy with metal legs probably wasn't the smartest thing to do in a lightning storm. Courtney and Lexie ran to her car and Monica and Lucy went into their car. (Lexie and Lucy are dogs...)
Anyways, the rain finally let up, I use that term lightly, around 9pm and we all made mad dashes to the rest room adn into our tents for an early, wet night :(
Back to the leak: Our tent leaks around the zipper in the door. I got into the tent first, made sure Charlie was OK adn then realized that there was water around the opening. Ugh. So I took ALL of our dirty clothes, towels, a sheet and then some clean towels and made a dam in front of the door. Then G and I turned our sleeping bags horizontally so that we would be further away from the door and slept with Charlie's little head between us. It was horrible, but was definitely an experience which I hope we don't have to go through again! Everything was fine, I was just upset because it was our last night camping, we were all having a great time and had a goal of getting rid of our beer...which didnt' happen. Just means that we'll have to take it camping again soon and finish it off then!
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