It's that time of year. The birds are singing. The sky is a beautiful blue and the clouds look like big white puffs of cotton candy. The heat, well, there's no pretty way to describe that. It's hotter than hell here in Texas. It's mid June and it's already in the 100's. Thanks God, thanks a lot.
So anyway, due to the heat and because we were invited to spend some time with George's son, we went camping for the night. George's son, whom I call "Munchkin" and his girlfriend both said that the place we were going was really nice. They've apparently been there many times and never had a problem so we figured it'd be a lot of fun.
Let me tell you....if anyone ever tells you "oh i've been there before. It's really nice and we've never had any problems there" about a public campgrounds, just spare yourself and claim you need the entire weekend to wash your hair or build Oompaloompa traps. If you simply must go, either pack industrial grade earplugs or just plan to sleep in the truck for a quick getaway. Not that Munchkin or his girlfriend lied, I'm sure they told the absolute truth. The difference was likely in the fact that they went when it was freezing out and no one else was there, or possibly in the definition of "problems".
Regardless, let me just explain to you what George and I got ourselves into.
3:00 Pull out onto the highway and notice a sheriff's deputy behind us.
3:03 Remember that the taillight removed from the jet ski trailer the previous night was never replaced and we're missing a light.
3:25 Begin breathing again when we turned to go to walmart to get said tail light and the deputy kept going straight
3:45 Finally get out of wal-mart, put tail light on trailer, get on the highway for our adventure
4:30 Arrive at Browder's 3278 Marina and check in
4:50 Launch Jetski's and go make camp
5:10 Steve carefully goes down the steep hill and crosses sharp rocks to get to the water so she can get on the jet ski.
5:20 Steve climbs back up the hill to get a drink
5:22 Steve goes back down the hill repeating the same process. Steve does this approximately 4 times before she ever gets to get on the jet ski. Steve is a slightly less than happy camper, no pun intended.
8:30 Everyone has had turns playing around, it's time for dinner. After walking half a mile, the cafe at the marina is closed but we get sandwich fixings and the potential crisis is averted.
9:30 it's bed time, but our fellow campers apparently have other ideas. Their music gets louder and they get drunker
11:30 We call the sheriff's department to report minors drinking and noise
12:00 AM sick of waiting for the sheriff's Dept. Munchkin goes to look for the marina owner.
12;15 Marina owner tells the inconsiderate inbred asshats partiers to turn it down. They do. For about 10 minutes.
12:20 Marina owner cruises by, the partiers see him coming though and turn it down. As soon as he passes, it goes back up.
12:30 see above
12:45 Munchkin goes to get the Marina owner again. This time the music stays turned down but the bass is just pounding making the volume fairly irrelevant.
1:30 Polk County's version of Barney Fife arrives. He cannot see herds of people running and hiding behind tree's or up on a hill. Our camp was farther from the hiders than the cop was and people in our camp could hear them but he could not. The music goes off, no more bass. Steve finally passes out thanks to the 2 wine coolers she had the foresight to drink. George does not.
2:30-5:00 AM screaming, singing, group sex or a possible sexual assault, drunks staggering through our camp, fights, more drunks staggering through the camp and then the fisherman arrive. George Finally managed to sleep for about 15 minutes.
Once we all got up and began fishing and such, we sort of got our second wind and we had some fun but it wasn't long before we were pretty much exhausted and needed to go home so we could rest after our getaway.
Needless to say, we won't be camping there again..........thank goodness we have beautiful pictures that make it look as if it were a wonderful carefree adventure.
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