  Ahh the great outdoors. I just got back from a camping/fishing trip with ryder and his dad and a few of his dad's friends. Great few days to just sit back and relax with mother nature without me on the damn computer. Wednesday - Me, Ryder and George "Ryders dad" arrived at detroit lake. We set up our tents and unpacked everything. When we unpacked all of our stuff, we decided we would take Georges boat out onto the water and go fishing. He has a nice motor boat that gave us trouble on the last 2 days of the trip but thats later on in the story.
When we got the boat onto the dock, we lowered it into the water off the ramp, brought it around for launch, then when we were ready, BAM, we were off. We were doing about 50mph on the water while we were all standing trying to take in some fresh air. We cruised the water for about 10 minutes before actually finding a spot to fish. When we found one, we just sat there for about an hour or so trying to catch some fish. Unfortunatly we didnt really catch any fish, so it was basicaly just a spot to just kick it on the water. We tried another spot for about 20 minutes then we just decided to go back to the campsite because it was 6:30 already. We got back, had some dinner and talked about stuff, then at 9:30 we went to bed because george wanted to wake us up to go fishing at 5:00 in the morning.
Thursday - During the night, it rained pretty hard so everything was soaked when we woke up. George cooked us some breakfast and we ate well! Well i ate good at least. At that time it was currently sunny. So we decided to try the boat again. We got out on the water around 5:30am and found various fishing places to hang out at. We did that from about 6:00 am till about 2:00 am before we headed in for lunch. We still hadn't caught a damn fish :(. We then took a break and George took a nap for a little bit.
Then we were back out the water once again trying to catch more fish. At 7:00 pm, we gave up again and took the boat back to shore. So far it wasnt looking too good for us. So we had some dinner, chilled out by the fire and i started to read this book ryder gave me called Youth in Revolt. Then at 9:00ish pm we decided to go to bed again. Friday - OMFG, i swear it rained the whole god damn day. So from 7:00 am till about 8:00 pm we were just stuck in our tents because it was pouring down rain the whole damn day. In that time, as i said, Ryder brought me a book to read called Youth in Revolt. Not a bad Book. I thought it was pretty damn good. It's a comedy kind of book based on the life of this kid named Nick Twisp. His experiences as a transvestite trying to hide from the FBI while his real quest is to get laid at the age of 15. Of course that isnt the real premise of the book, but thats mainly the last 3rd of the book. So i started to read that book for the whole time it rained and got to about page 220.
No i dont read slow, i actually exaggerated the whole time frame there. It was more like from 12:00 to 4:00. At 5:00 the rain started to die down, so we decided to take the boat out on the water. Everything was going good then the engine started to act up on the motor and stall a lot. George tried to figure out what the hell was going on then we found out we were in a sticky situation when the engine wouldnt start.
We spend like 30 minutes trying to fix it but we were cluesless at the moment. George had a theory that it was the carborator. So we had to try to get the boat to shore but that proved to be a bitch. While working on the boat, his coat went overboard. Of course we were like "Nooo!!! " . So ryder tried to fish it out with a fishing pole but in the end he snagged rocks and the coat was drifting farther and farther away. So i was like "Fuck it", took off all my electronics and just dove in the water after it. It was really refreshing water too.
I finaly got it but god damn it weighed like 40 lbs in the water. Then we i tried to get out of the water, my Lee Dungarees weighed like 50 extra lbs, so i had to climb up on the motor cause i couldnt climb on the boat itself. To get to shore, we were hoping the engine might ignite and propel us to shore with just lots of igition turns. We were really lucky and the engine started for a little bit in 10 second intervals. So we luckaly got it back to the docks and eventualy out of the water back to the campground Around 8:00 pm Georges girlfriend and her friends arrived around 8:00. Daniele who is Georges 21 year old girlfriend "while george is 44" brought her daughter Zoe who's 7, and her friend Valyrie with her boyfriend Brandon who was 27. Man these were some interesting people in my opinion. I'll get to that later. Me and ryder were tired because basicaly we hadnt done much of anything the whole day so we decided to go sleep around 10:00.
We really go to sleep around 12:00 because everyone was up talking and doing some illegal things.... Oh fuck it who cares, they were all smoking pot and drinking beer. I didnt mind because i didnt get offered anything :(, but i could use a beer... Saturday - Ahh. What a beautiful day. It was sunny all day. A great day to go swimming. George tried to work on the boat engine some more by cleaning out the carborator but it turned out not to work. So it looks like he just has to replace the carborator on the engine and it should work again, but he didnt bring an extra carborator with him so there were no more trips back out on the water.
So we just hung out on the shore with chairs and just kicked it or swam in the water. Me and ryder were kicking eachothers ass in the water by dunking eachother, so that was fun, except i get tired hella fast so i got owned more then i owned him. :-/. Oh well i still had a lot of fun. Most of the day was spent doing that. I also got some tan for a change!!!
Well more like sunburns all over but it stil works. When we got back to the campsite around 6:00, we all had dinner, me and ryder continued to read our books and i actually finished my book. It was an easy book to read all the way through but thats a new record for me. A 496 page book in 3 days.
Not bad for me because i rarely read these days. Since me and ryder didnt get much sleep the past day because everyone was up talking, we decided to stay up until everyone was asleep. When 11:00 came around. George brought up an interesting topic that we talked about for like 3 hours. How the music of the early 60's - late 70's compared to the Metal music of the current age portrayed how people protested. We had many arguements about how social political everything was or wasnt, George was pro social political to everything we brought up which was funny as hell. It's great when everyone's stoned talking about politics. But you really had to be there, i cant really talk about what we talked about in the end.
Around 12:00 everyone went to bed for the final night of the camping trip. Sunday - I woke up around 6:00 to the sound of two people doing the nasty "I bet you can guess who *cough* GEORGE *cough*, but i went back to sleep and woke up around 9:00. Ryder woke up at 9:30 and Zoe woke up at like 10:45. When we were all up we packed up all of our tents, all the supplies and decided to go to the shore one last time before we headed back to portland. When it was time to go we hit the road! While we were on the road, the futon that was fastened onto the top of the roof came off on the freeway and it got pwned by a semitruck, so ryder and his dad were hella pissed because that was a good futon. In case you were wondering, George brought a futon for him and daniele to sleep on together. We got back to portland at Georges apartment which he manages, and we unloaded everything from his boat into the apartment. Then he dropped me off at my house with all my stuff and we said good bye. I got inside to find out I HAVE DOOM 3!!!!!!! KICK ASS The game kicks ass! Its so damn scary everywhere you go! But enough nerding, This nerd needs some sleep. Chippy Fishing roxx0rz 
