My first ever hiking trip!

Okay, before I start this, I apologize for the lack of pictures! My sister jacked my camera to take pictures of her kids the day we went, so I didn't get to take it with me. Luckily, my friend Katie took pictures, but she hasn't posted the pictures yet! Maybe I'll show you guys in another post. ;)

I would like to say that contrary to what every one seems to believe, I love to camp. Really and truly. I haven't gotten to go much since Katie went to college because I went with her family to camp and I didn't really have friends who enjoyed it as much. After much confusion, dropping out, and being talked back in, everyone (everyone being Katie, Tanner, Eli, and myself) were on board for a weekend camping trip!

The plan was to pick Katie up on the way to Petit Jean on Saturday, stay the night, do some trails Sunday, and come home. Well, we get there, and Tanner had said for us to not worry about a tent because he had a big one. I know what you're thinking, a tent like this:

With all that lovely space and a divider that we could chose to use or not. Oh, no. No, no, no. We get the tent out of his truck, put it up to find that it is an 8x8 tent. 8x8. For four people. It was too funny. Katie and I ragged him about that tent FOREVER. All in good jest, I promise. At least we wouldn't get cold, right?

After arriving, we went down a trail to a waterfall. If I had the pictures, I'd show you, but it wasn't very big at all. Which, in hindsight, I don't really know why I thought it'd be big, but I digress. I didn't fall at all which I found surprising. Eli climbed on all the rocks like he was a mountain lion or something. It was my first time on a hiking trail, and I LOVED it. I couldn't wait to go the next day on the Seven Hollows Trail which I hear is BEAUTIFUL. I say hear because we never got to go.

Saturday we all lay down to sleep. Katie falls asleep. No one else does. Okay, I lie, I slept for maybe an hour. It was ridiculous. So, we planned on getting up at 6 or 7 to go on this 4.5 mile hike. Eli and I are the only ones that got outta the tent and brushed our teeth to get ready before 8:30. Tanner's excuse was he had to call his boss because he forgot he worked that day. It's the only day of the week he works! It was too funny. Sadly, we didn't get to go, but maybe next time. We decided to go on the Bear Cave trail which was .5 miles long and NOT A CAVE AT ALL. It was maybe a crevice. So sad we were.

I feel bad for the lack of awesome pictures of all of us sweaty and hiking, so here I am with my niece reppin' for the first Hogs game of the season!