Sunday, July 10, 2005

Nelson's Ledges

Nelson Ledges

I just got back from the most strange camping experience
I've ever had. Rachel invited me and Katie, along with 8
other friends. Eliza was in town, as she was driving
cross-country with her brother who just graduated from some
school in Florida. I met her in Seattle. We went salsa
dancing after I saw Deborah Voight in Lohengrin at Seattle
Opera. There were a ton of fun people, and the weekend was
fantastic. Nelson's Ledges , however, was a mix of wonder
and disaster. There was horrendously loud music playing
until (I'm not exaggerating) about 5AM. It was like some
kind of huge party in the woods. We were unprepared for
this, as it was advertised as "family camping". We managed
to have a good time nonetheless, playing scrabble, smoking a
huge hookah, listening to the other Sean play guitar and
sing, and reading from Bloom's book of children's stories.
As if to make up for all the drunk, high, rude people,
however, nature offered us a marvelous lake (a filled in
quarry) and some truly strange geology. Check out the
pictures.