My OperaOrhaneleik
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 10:15:42 AM
Went to the woods with family yesterday and today. AIM: to watch male birds competing for a mate. I think. Anyway.
We miraculously found 5 sleeping bags.
Walked for like 3 hours trying to find the gapahuk, imposible! (we got the wrong directions: we had called and asked for directions, he said go right so we went right and looked for 45 minutes, found no gapahuk so we called again. His son answered this time, and he siad go left! So we went back to the place we'd called from, and then went left. Then we found the gapahuk in less than 5 minutes..... That was almost an hour wasted, and we were walking the long way in the first place, too. So At least two and a half hours.
Anyway, on the way, Solveig went Plopp into mushy ground, and her rubber boots were filled with water and moss, and her pants were soaking up to her knees. So When we found the place and set up the gapahuk and were going to sleep, she had to borrow my PJs because she was so cold. So I had to be really really cold! My feet were freeeeezing... And there were mosquitoes! Arghh! Bzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...Inside sleeping bag when I'm concentrating on not thinking about the very hard and bumpy logs I am lying on! (That DID get my mind off the logs, though)
We almost scared away all the birds, we made way to much noise, I read aloud about a page from Kiss Of The Spider Woman to my sister, she liked it, and made it easier to understand for me, she read the lines of Valintin, and I read Molina, like a play. She and asked lot's of questions, some smart ("But WHY is there a book about why peiople don't like gays in the middle of this movie about a man who drinks and hit's his wife?") and some not-so-smart (But PLEASE, I want to be the spider-woman, even if I'm not the one who is gay!") And I had to translate every other word in the psychology parts so she would understand a bit more. Fun anyway.
So after that I send some SMS's, and then I fell asleep at about midnight.
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Woke up at 4.12 in the morning, feet like ice, so had to take my sweater-pillow and stuff it into the foot-end of sleeping bag and wait for it to warm up my feet. Very moon, but couldn't take the camera out of the plastic bag to take a picture because the bag crinkled way too much, and I would have scared the birds. (There were four birds maybe a hundred meters away, displaying their tail feathers (that's the point) and being very interesting according to people like whatshisname, the guy in "Life of Birds" David something. British.
The birds made an incredible amount of noise, too, like scheeaaach, sheeeeaaach, sounds. And ran back and worth with their nice white tail feathers. Watched for half an hour.
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5.20. Mom up, birds gone, mom waiting for birds to come back. Me wanting to get up and go home. 5.40 Birds back. more of them, like 10 or 15... Got binoculars now, made it quite a lot more interesting. Still they looked very small though... Nowhere near close enough for a picture. Others gradually waking up, everybody looking at birds. Scheeeaaach!
7.00 get out of sleeping bag. COLD COLD DOLD! Boots somehow managed to get wet during night. Solvieg says: light fire. Mom says: No, don't have firewood. I say: No. I think, are you crazy that will take 2 hours and besides it's not allowed, this is in May. Dad says: OK, then, we light a fire. so they did. good thing, though, clothes got nice and dry, and warm, though Solveig's stockings got a little bit too warm, as did my boots. they look very funny if you look closely. They have pine needles immersed in the plastic. Anyway, all of us nice and try, very careful to put out the fire with 5 litres of swamp water, leave the camp at 8.00. Walking goes very fast, although we quickly run out of water, as we drank most of it yesterday (2 bottles of 1.5 litres of water split on 5 people (wearing 3 backpacks) walking for 4 hours), that is 1.5 decilitres of H2O per person per hour, not counting backpacks.
Still, we only use an hour to get back to the car (and we stop to talk to 3 people!) In the car at 8.59, Gas station, ice cream, yum, home at 9.35 about...
Sleep!
Blog!
Caught up to present.
See you guys later today!
Bye!
We miraculously found 5 sleeping bags.
Walked for like 3 hours trying to find the gapahuk, imposible! (we got the wrong directions: we had called and asked for directions, he said go right so we went right and looked for 45 minutes, found no gapahuk so we called again. His son answered this time, and he siad go left! So we went back to the place we'd called from, and then went left. Then we found the gapahuk in less than 5 minutes..... That was almost an hour wasted, and we were walking the long way in the first place, too. So At least two and a half hours.
Anyway, on the way, Solveig went Plopp into mushy ground, and her rubber boots were filled with water and moss, and her pants were soaking up to her knees. So When we found the place and set up the gapahuk and were going to sleep, she had to borrow my PJs because she was so cold. So I had to be really really cold! My feet were freeeeezing... And there were mosquitoes! Arghh! Bzzzzzzzzzz bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...Inside sleeping bag when I'm concentrating on not thinking about the very hard and bumpy logs I am lying on! (That DID get my mind off the logs, though)
We almost scared away all the birds, we made way to much noise, I read aloud about a page from Kiss Of The Spider Woman to my sister, she liked it, and made it easier to understand for me, she read the lines of Valintin, and I read Molina, like a play. She and asked lot's of questions, some smart ("But WHY is there a book about why peiople don't like gays in the middle of this movie about a man who drinks and hit's his wife?") and some not-so-smart (But PLEASE, I want to be the spider-woman, even if I'm not the one who is gay!") And I had to translate every other word in the psychology parts so she would understand a bit more. Fun anyway.
So after that I send some SMS's, and then I fell asleep at about midnight.
....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Woke up at 4.12 in the morning, feet like ice, so had to take my sweater-pillow and stuff it into the foot-end of sleeping bag and wait for it to warm up my feet. Very moon, but couldn't take the camera out of the plastic bag to take a picture because the bag crinkled way too much, and I would have scared the birds. (There were four birds maybe a hundred meters away, displaying their tail feathers (that's the point) and being very interesting according to people like whatshisname, the guy in "Life of Birds" David something. British.
The birds made an incredible amount of noise, too, like scheeaaach, sheeeeaaach, sounds. And ran back and worth with their nice white tail feathers. Watched for half an hour.
.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
5.20. Mom up, birds gone, mom waiting for birds to come back. Me wanting to get up and go home. 5.40 Birds back. more of them, like 10 or 15... Got binoculars now, made it quite a lot more interesting. Still they looked very small though... Nowhere near close enough for a picture. Others gradually waking up, everybody looking at birds. Scheeeaaach!
7.00 get out of sleeping bag. COLD COLD DOLD! Boots somehow managed to get wet during night. Solvieg says: light fire. Mom says: No, don't have firewood. I say: No. I think, are you crazy that will take 2 hours and besides it's not allowed, this is in May. Dad says: OK, then, we light a fire. so they did. good thing, though, clothes got nice and dry, and warm, though Solveig's stockings got a little bit too warm, as did my boots. they look very funny if you look closely. They have pine needles immersed in the plastic. Anyway, all of us nice and try, very careful to put out the fire with 5 litres of swamp water, leave the camp at 8.00. Walking goes very fast, although we quickly run out of water, as we drank most of it yesterday (2 bottles of 1.5 litres of water split on 5 people (wearing 3 backpacks) walking for 4 hours), that is 1.5 decilitres of H2O per person per hour, not counting backpacks.
Still, we only use an hour to get back to the car (and we stop to talk to 3 people!) In the car at 8.59, Gas station, ice cream, yum, home at 9.35 about...
Sleep!
Blog!
Caught up to present.
See you guys later today!
Bye!
