The Fabulous Adventures of Tara, Leigh, Nicole, and Felicia

Ahhh. What a great day. After much thought and planning (ie: an hour before hand), I decided that it would be a perfect day for a hike. The weather was absolutely perfect, not too hot and not too cold. After calling around and a few minor setbacks, the four of us hit the road and headed off to Ringwood State Park. Not really having the best directions, it took us a little longer than expected to get there, but car rides are always fun wiht the girls so it was okay. I think we ended up getting to the park around 2 pm or some time around there. We hiked, or rather walked, around for a bit, stopped to eat lunch, walked around some more, and then decided to take our travels to another part of the park.

We decided to go to Shepard Lake, a part of the part that Leigh swore that we had been to before. It's basically a litte lake where you can swim and boat and picnic and what not. We got lost again, thanks to everyone telling me to turn left. As we have now learned, turning left is not always the right decision, ::coughcough:: nicole. We roll up the the gate around 3:50ish, and seeing that there was a toll, stopped and told the park ranger that we were just going to turn around. Heeelllooo Mister Ranger. Hahaha. Leigh told me to stop the car (I did) and ask him what time the park closed (which I also did). His reply? And I quote, "I should be getting out of here at 4." Now why would he answer my question in such a manner? I'll just let you mull that over for a bit... As soon as we got out of sight, we all burst out laughing. Leigh kept telling me to turn the car around so we could go 'talk' to the Ranger, but I was laughing way too hard to make and sort of decision at the moment. At Nicole's suggestion, we decided to go back a bit after four, she/we figured that we'd be able to just go park and not pay since the Ranger dude wouldn't be working anymore.

Lo and behold, the Ranger wasn't working when we went back a few minutes later, although he was standing off to the side with his car... haha, I almost didn't know what to do then. I'm silly, but we knew that already. We decided to check out the boating options ($10 per hour, per boat, fyi), and then decided to go mess around on the playground for a bit. Sometime after the boat-shtuff and before the playground, I stole one of Leigh's birkenstocks and proceeded to float it in the lake, and then she proceeded to empty the remainder of her water bottle on my back. Sorta not cool might I add. Hahaha, during this time (this is all according to Nicole), apparently the lifegaurd that was on duty, but not really doing anything, "was checking us out." Now I know this doesn't seem particularly humerous to you, but just the way that nicole described it, the entire sitting-and-then-leaning-back-to-look-at-something situation, it was extreemly humerous. :D trust me on this one. So to wrap up our time at he lake, we went to the playground, went back to the beach and played in the water for a bit, (the water was prety warm considering), and then headed home.

To sum it up, very fun day. Why do I feel that it's important to share this with you all? I don't really. I don't have this blog to cater to all of my non-existent adoring fans, it's more of a way to keep track of the interesting stories that occur during my life. If you know me well, you know that I have a bad memory, and this is one way of keeping some of my good memories alive. :Shrug: Nothing more and nothing less... do with it what you please, and have a nice day. :)