Sunday, September 30, 2007 | by nathan

Roughing It

This weekend had been planned for at least a month. Bri and I were going to pack up on Friday night and leave with our friends Jayson and Laurie to drive to Robbers Cave, a neat little state park in Oklahoma. We were going to find a campsite, pitch some tents, open a cooler of beer, and chillax in the wilderness until Sunday afternoon. We packed up all our camping gear, got the dog psyched out for his first long trip, bought beer.

We set off along I-40, Sam being his perfect angelic self in the backseat of the car, perfectly content to be confined to the backseat for long stretches of time. Then, somewhere near Wewoka, Oklahoma, Jaye and Laurie’s car died. We managed to get it into the parking lot of a filling station off the interstate, but only barely. The alternator was out.

So. We loaded up everything we could in my truck, four people and two dogs and everything even remotely valuable we had with us, and headed back to the city. Brian and Jaye went back the next day to fix the car while Laurie and I watched the very, very disappointing Oklahoma football game. We’ve been camped out in my living room ever since. We’ve taken the dogs to the dog park twice, and shopped for Halloween decorations at Super Target, and eaten at Qdoba. We took a field trip to Norman last night to play miniature golf and skee-ball.

It’s been rough, but we’ve managed. Seriously though, it’s funny how a little bit of bad luck can lead to one of the coolest weekends ever.