Camping!

I went camping over the weekend in Cloudcroft, NM. It was freezing.

The Ride
When we all boarded the van, everybody was like,
"turn on the radio!"
"104.2!"
"No, 95.5!"
"You like classic, right, Sam?"
"No, Jazz!"
Then the whole thing started blaring music everywhere. But then a guy said,
"No, Sheikh is coming, turn it off. We can do it when we start moving!!"

Then we moved, and stopped at a gas station, where our drivers bought some Red Bull and cigarettes. Apparently one of the drivers was the boss at work of one of the guys and the guy said,
"Yeah my boss. His fingers are so thick that three of my fingers would be one of his. And he always stashes Red Bull at work, man!"

Strange.

Also, after we left the gas station, our driver was horrible at driving and he almost got us and the van's brakes killed.

Also, he didn't know the way, so he drove like 20 miles the wrong way. The other vans just waited for us.

Almost there
It was getting all dark and stuff, and the kids were all like screaming at the beauty of the view as if they never went on a road trip before.

"OOOOHH!!! LOOK BEHIND US! THE SUN!"
A guy started filming with his lame cracked camcorder.  Me and two guy were in the back seat. one wanted to pee but the drivers wouldn't stop so he was about to pee in his water bottle, but he didn't vbecuase of the view.

Then it got dark and we went up the hill with our ears popping and everybody started talking about Slender and scary movies. Then they all got scared, and they were actually really scared. And most of them were over sixteen. this is how it went.

"You know, it would be creepy if we just turned and suddenly saw a woman in black"
"Yeah that movie was so scary, when she just stood in the back of the train grinning."
"AAAAAH!!!"
"AAAH!!"
"STOP IT GUYS, IM REALLY SCARED"
"AAH WHY DONT THOSE HOUSES HAVE THEIR LIGHTS ON?"
"AAH!"
"AAH!"
"AAH WE'RE TURNING!"

Somebody really said that.

There
We got there later than expected, and we all went into our cabins, and they were all fancy. Here's a video, sorry it's so bad but we weren't actually allowed to have electronics in camp and there was a guy sleeping right behind me so i had to make it quick.
We ate some hot dogs and burgers for dinner. they were real good, but i only got to have one burger cuz all the kids stole all the other stuff. And they didn't even finish em! There was uneaten burgers on the ground. So The Sheikh lectured us on not wasting food, but they still did anyway.

Sleeping
After we bru- wait no, I'll talk about the bathrooms first

Bathrooms
The bathrooms were okay, but the only thing seperating the toilet from the rest of the bathroom was a translucent curtain. it was blue. All the guys thought that we could see them through the curtain, but actually we couldn't. Because the way the curtain was, you could only see through the curtain if you were behind the curtain, because there was more light on the other side. Also, some kids pooped. Enough said.

Sleeping
Okay, back to sleeping. After we all got ready for bed, we were all in our beds, and then, out of the blue, someone farted. The person who farted burst into laughter and everyone else screamed and covered their noses. Those were the worst farts I had ever smelt in my life. Everyone thought they were toxic. So like every five minutes someone farted so we ended up sleeping almost at midnight.

The Next Day
The night before we actually had a fire but apparently we weren't allowed to even though there was already a pre made fire pit. So this ranger came and she said
"No fire. You guys now, the forest is so dry ,and actually two weeks ago we had a big fire\."
So a man ran to the fire and poured some water ion the burning coal and BOOM!!! Smoke went into his face and he coughed while apologizing behind a thick cloud of dark gray smoke LOL. And even after she left, the coal was still smoking, so we still had heat...

Football
Somebody brought a football, the kind that has like fins in the back so it makes a whooshy sound when it flies through the air. We all started playing with that majigger, and it was awesome. I wanna buy one of those. We played a game where there was two teams, and someone in the other team bombed the ball hard toward our team, and then if someone in our team caught it, then the person who threw it was out. it was kind of  like dodgeball, only more painful because the ball slapped into our numb frostbitey hands.

Capture The Flag
Since the only activity the adults made for us was an hour hike, we had to make up our own games. one was the Football thing, and the other was Capture the flag. Two of the big guys got their shirts and they picked teams. No, I wasn't picked last. So there. We started playing, and I was a guard, because I failed at trying to find the flag because they actually hid their flag. Seriously, bro. I was hiding behind this tree by myself with the flag a few feet behind me. Those are the vans we came in. they had a lot of seats.


Since we couldn't have fire, the adults wanted to leave a day early, but we were busy playing Capture The Flag, so we all voted on staying.

Game Room
Since we couldn't have fire, the ranger reserved a game room for us, where there was a pool table and ping pong. Everybody hogged the pool table and played wrong, so I just had to play Ping pong doubles with this guy that everybody called Honey Mustard.

Skit
We had to do a skit in the game room and it was hawrible. We planned our skit at a table. The sheikh said that he would give prizes to the winning skit, but HE DIDN'T. So we did our skit on a muslim in a classroom ashamed and stuff. We won. But no prize.

Everybody's Names
At the beginning of the camp, the Sheikh told us to memorize everybody's names, and he said he'd give whoever could do it a prize. He didn't. He only took pictures with the winners.

Sleeping the second night
Everybody farted. it was cold. The farts warmed the room. Just kidding. My sleeping bag was wet. I had to sleep with my jacket on.

The Trip Back
We went back with a new driver who didn't let us play music in the van! Woohoo! We arrived about an hour early. The guy wanted everybody to stand for a group picture, but it never happened cuz everybody had to go pee. Including me.
The End.