Hulleye Comes By!

well this was the may two-four long weekend. i had no particular plans and it seemed as if it would end up just an ordinary weekend. friday night was awesome and ended up going to watch stephen wright. he is one funny man and i think mumbles more than bob dylan. heh. saturday i caught on my battlestar galactica season 2 viewing and a friend kindly invited us over to watch planes take off and land at the airport. weird enough as that was, i headed over with my wife and went to his place where we met up with !nk and ali nawab and a few other friends.

as desi’s generally do, we all spoke about making the most of the summer and making great plans of rafting and camping and being all outdoorsy, especially since we have shitty, long winters. as desi’s generally do, these plans never work out and someone let it be known that night. somehow or the other, we ended up incorporating the camping plan within the next hour and drove over 250 km at 2 in the morning for a campsite right there and then. unfortunately, one of our cars broke down about two hours en route . troopers that we are, we had to car towed back to toronto, and then proceeded back to algonquin park where we found a spot at mew lake about seven hours after we were actually supposed to. not bad for a plan that was conceptualized a few hours before in a city over 250 km away after midnight.

exhausted, cold and tired we pitched tents and got a fire going just before it started raining on us. rain turned to snow soon after. we had been prepped for temperatures hitting lows of about 10 degrees. here we were, in the middle of nowhere and its dropping below freezing with the wind chill. not fun at all i tell you. in the ten years that i’ve lived in canada, i’ve never felt that cold in my life. was great fun nevertheless. just had to make sure that we got the fire going as soon as possible and never let it burn out. some of us passed out as soon as we got there. was so cold we had to sit as close to the fire as we could. salman ended up melting his shoe because of this reason. tried to stay warm in any which way possible.

on the plus side, jeff brought along some deer meat which he had hunted and i have to admit it was some of the best tasting meat i’ve had in the longest of times.

anyway after some odd 36 hours of fun, i’m back at home in a soft, warm bed and glad for it. good night.