First Time Camping

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We rode up the snowy roads and saw the icy mountains in the truck. The Toyota Tundra 4x4 was slipping even though we were on 22 inch Mickey Thomson snow tires and the 6.7 liter v8 engine. The hot cocoa and donuts we were eating and drinking was like hot eggnog and cookies right out of the oven on Christmas day. “When will we get there? ’’, I asked. ‘’Maybe in 3 hours at this rate, “John said. “Darn, that will shorten our time to set up the tents and start the fire,” Landon said. As we drove up the road, Mr. Lemasany pressed the 4x4 button in the truck and the truck gave the last explosion of the pistons in the engine to the wheels. We were climbing a steep grade but the trailer that we were towing pulled us downward like a bear pulling a salmon out of the river. Everyone was trying to lean forward to urge the truck up the steep slope. After what felt like 3 hours, but only minutes in real life, we finally got there. Everyone was excited when we got there; we all jumped out of the truck and started hurling snowballs at everyone we had seen in sight. “Oh no, that’s cold,” I said. “Stop being a wimp Anthony,” said Alex as he got hit by two snowballs in the face. As I ducked down I made a snowball and hurled it at, one of my best friends, Joe. Instead of hitting him in the chest, I overshot and the snowball fell into the fire pit causing the fire to die out in the matter of nanoseconds. The bad thing was I was forced to shove 3 huge snowballs into my long sleeved shirt. When we had set up our camp with the fire and our tents, it was already 10:30 at night and everyone wanted to have soup, change out of their sweaty clothes, have a hot water in our water bottles as a sleeping bag heater and, go to bed. When we had our soup, it was like the heavens opening up hot broth, chicken, and pasta to my dried up cold lips. We had about 2 bowls of chicken soup each

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