We found a site. Right beside Lili's friends. We settled in. Had snacks. Lili worked. I listened to my book. Had a nap. We cooked dinner. All was good in our world. Just as we were done eating a car pulled up and they sat staring at us. Uh oh.
They said they had the site reserved. In hindsight I should have asked to see their reservation. I suggested they go look at the first come first serve sites. They said NO. I suggested they call the park ranger. They said NO. So Lili called. No answer. Leave a message. They then pulled their car into the site. Uh. Really?!
I drove off to look for a ranger or an empty fcfs site. I didn't find either. I went back and Lili was standing there watching them put up their tent in our site. I surprisingly kept my calm.
We packed up in silence in a mere two minutes. Lili was in the front seat with our dirty dishes on her lap.
The family, man, woman and child were incredibly awful. Angry. When we drove out their 10ish years old son was having a screaming meltdown. They didn't look at us. It was a totally wild experience. I'm grateful today that I'm not those people.
We drove to the entrance and found the park ranger driving in. We flagged him down.
Turns out the site WAS AVAILABLE. They were supposed to check in the day before and your reservation is canceled at 11 the next day. Vindicated. But now had no site.
I asked if we should have stayed put, he said yes. They had the problem, not us. We shouldn't have moved. He said he would talk to them. He also found us a site. So we settled in. Had snacks and a walk and then Lili went to hang with her friends. I went to bed and listened to my book and played games. The second site was nicer. The 1st one smelled of outhouse.
Site number 2.
Set up went much faster. A system was already established.
We tried a tik tok camping hack today.
Omelets cooked in ziplocs.
They worked great!
Super easy. No clean up and the hot water was used for doing dishes.
Over all I'd say Onyx camping went well. I'm hoping to find more days to get away this fall.
Once again, I came home to a surprise!
The closet project is under construction.
Holey Cow.
Lili is horrified we aren't making this another deck. Haha. No way. We've talked about this closet plan for 20 years. I do think we might have to rethink the layout though. Perhaps a giant window like the pink room would be a good thing.