On Sunday night we headed up to Mud Pond for the second time this week, only this time we were much better prepared and brought everything we needed to spend the night.
The day was cold and windy so we managed to avoid all the flies, but unfortunately that stopped us from being able to start a fire (it kept dying because of the wind). We still managed to enjoy the evening though and we cooked a delicious dinner that we then ate while watching the beautiful pond right in front of us. Cooking was very fun and we have a video coming up soon that shows some of our many cooking adventures, because we had to get a bit creative at times. But dinner was delicious and everything worked out great.
We set up our things on the platform and after washing our dishes down at the creek decided to read and write before heading to bed. We went to sleep pretty early, and once we woke up the wilderness really decided to test us. Within our first ten minutes awake we ran out of gas to warm up our breakfast, our lighter stopped working, we found out that a mouse/rat/squirrel had been munching on my bagel during the night, and Daisy sliced her finger open. At this point we were pretty cold and still tired, so we decided to head back to campus so that Daisy could get her finger taken care of (it was a pretty deep cut, nothing too serious though) and then go get some breakfast. So Sunday was a better day for us than Monday, but honestly that dinner was so good that it was kind of worth the cold temperatures during the night (the cut seemed pretty painful though, sorry Daisy).
Calamity!
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