Friday afternoon we gathered at the Pulsipher’s at about 5 PM and caravaned up to Heise Campground. This was the first weekend that the campground was open so there were plenty of folks up with their RVs. The pools are going to be closed until June 1st at least by order of the Health Department, but the hot pools have a new changing room building which looks very nice - it must have been built this last year. Not having a pool trip that night meant that we had plenty of time for meal prep.
Charlotte was in charge of dinner and with the help of Sadie and Katherine, they boiled jumbo pasta shells, filled them with cheeses and then we baked them in Marinara sauce for about 30 min in the Dutch Ovens. Shortly after we arrived it had started to rain, but the char coals kept smoldering along nicely in the dripping rain, and we used the small breaks to setup our kitchen tent and then eventually the other Hilleberg tents. We were very glad to have the use of the Cameron’s trailer for our cooking and meal prep.
After dinner with plenty of food for seconds and thirds, we setup the pop-up projector screen outside the kitchen tent and watched the Disney classic “Freaky Friday”, where a 13 year old girl and her mother switch places for a day. There’ve been several versions, but this was the original from 1976. One of the pieces of new “technology” that the mother had to deal with in her daughter’s typing class was a new “electronic” typewriter! The girls both giggled and groaned at the crazy situations in the movie, including and especially the girl wooing the boy across the street in her mother’s body. The actor playing the boy is the same one in the Church production of Jack Weyland’s story “The Phone Call”.
Our movie night was capped by some enjoyable “stove-top s’mores” that the Cameron’s made. Then it was off to bed and lights out. We stayed plenty warm this month after a brisk night last month - lots of good lessons learned there. This time we both slept well all the way through the night, and rose to clear and sunny skies in the morning.
Breakfast was prepared by the Pulsiphers’ and was another morning of French Toast liked we’d enjoyed a couple of months ago at the Teton Canyon campout. We hit the amount just about spot on this time. After packing up gear at the campsite we left the tents up to dry and hiked up to the Zip Line building to begin our Tour.
We were the first group for the team this season and they were still prepping the staff during our tour. We had lots of fun and by the end the anxious screams of the girls had turned into confident jumps down the lines. The video above shows highlights.
