Truckee Camping
Last Thursday, I went to watch The Proposal with Michelle and Catherine. We originally planned to watch the 12:15 pm one, but then Michelle was going to be a little late, so to ensure that we get a good seat, we changed the tickets to 3:00 pm. Before we went in, we shopped around Forever 21 and made Catherine try on a whole bunch of clothes she would never try on her whole life (up to now, that is). Then we went to a lot of other stores that I forgot the name of (Victoria’s Secret, Papaya, etc.). I bought a pretzel and after a while, we decided to go into the theater to get seats.
The movie was so adorable and funny. Very cheesy, but I liked it. It was kind of like a Taiwanese Idol drama or something (reminded me of Miss No Good, which made me kinda sad). Ryan Reynolds was one infinitely cute piece of pie in there. xD The movie had some great and hilarious scenes that threw everyone in the auditorium into laughter (there was a woman who laughed so loud it was kind of outrageous). I really enjoyed the movie.
Afterwards, we shopped around some more. When we were walking, this weird Chinese guy came up to us and asked if we spoke Mandarin. He started speaking to us in Mandarin saying “How are you?” “Do you guys understand?” “Oh, are you ABC?” We were like O_o and told him no, then walked on and ignored him. At around 7:00 pm, we left the mall and Catherine came to my house. Her mom was already at my house when my mom drove us home. We ate some fruits and Kimchi, and then she left, and I had dinner.
On Friday, we left to go camping at Truckee at around 8:00 pm. We stopped at Ihop to eat breakfast, and we got to the campsite at around 3:00 pm. Alan’s family (sans Alan) was already there setting their tent when we arrived, and we circled the campsite a couple times trying to find out spot. We eventually found it and was completely blown away by how crappy it was. We couldn’t even fit our ONE tent there even if we tried; there were rocks EVERYWHERE; it was completely in the sun since there were absolutely no trees around it that could possibly provide us with shade on any given time of the day; and there was actual place to park our car. I was completely baffled by how such a shitty place could possibly be a campsite. Compared to everyone else’s (which provided room for 8 personal tents, parking space for 4 cars, and shade), our spot was a complete shithole. (Even talking about it now makes me mad). My dad scouted a place that was previously a site which had shade and was a little flatter to place our tent, so we just ignored what we were assigned and went to a random area. We even moved the huge and heavy wooden table to the other area so it would be easier for us to place our things.
It was my brother’s birthday, so we decided to drive to Reno to eat at the El Dorado’s buffet. Good food, good food. Makes me happy. =)
That night, we started a fire and roasted some marshmallows, except we couldn’t eat them because we used some random things for the fire. I completely burnt a marshmallow until it turned black. xD We just sat by the fire and talked until it grew dark, and then we made our way back to our own tent to sleep. We pitched our tent on a slight hill, so we were constantly sliding down in our sleeping bags and had to constantly climb back up so we wouldn’t step on my brother, who slept at our feet.
The next day, we went to the town of Truckee to look around. There was a parade celebrating the Fourth of July, and we stopped to watch it for a while. There were so many dogs there it was like a dog park. Then we ate dinner in one of the cafes there. I had a pastrami grilled cheese sandwich (later I wished I only got the grilled cheese). It was really good, and I ate too much so I didn’t feel good afterwards. After finishing our lunch, we drove to a beach there to swim. I got into my brand new bikini (YAY) even though it wasn’t a good idea seeing how everything’s just bulging out now. I didn’t really swim; just got into the water and splashed water at the other kids. Then I laid down on the beach to try and get a tan (nearly burnt my feet off standing barefoot on that burning, sizzling hot sand). Then we drove back to our campsite to rest, where we found a paper attached to our table telling us to move our things back to our assigned area or we were going to be asked to leave. Well, that area sucked, so we ignored the message and stayed on our spot. Besides, we were going to leave the next morning.
That night, we went to a nearby pizza restaurant to eat. They make really good bread and crust. We came back to the campsite and started a fire, thing time actually eating the marshmallows we roasted (screw the possibly of weird resulting gas). Then we sat around the fire again until it became dark and went back to our tent to wash and change our clothes. I sat outside on our chair for a while just enjoying nature (the moon, the trees, the sound of naturl wildlife). xD It was actually very peaceful.
The next morning, we quickly cleaned and packed everything on our car. We drove to McDonald’s at around 9:00 am to eat breakfast, and then we drove straight back home, arriving at around 2-ish in the afternoon.
