Spring Break 08 update

Spring Break is finally over. It was pretty boring for me for the first couple of days. But I ended the break by going winter camping with Tsering and Matie, which turned out to be a lot of fun, although there wasnt that much to see in Duluth.

So we all really sat down and planned this whole thing like a night before we left, therefore, you can kinda guess how it should turn out. We got to Duluth at around noon on Thursday, shocked to find out that the camp site we intended to stay over was closed. Luckily, there was another camp site, namely "Jay Cooke State Park Camp Ground" near by, so we camped there instead. Later on, we didnt realize they were charging us $16 per night for each camp site. "how ridiculous! this is STATE park, shouldnt it be free" we thought; therefore, we only ended up staying there once.
For two days, we visited downtown Duluth, went to Jitter, a local cafe, got rejected to enter YMCA (haha we thought we could get a visitor pass to enjoy saunna there, but we were wrong), Ve Bene, a local Italian restaurant overlooking canal park, Duluth lift bridge and Lake Superior, and got to enjoy the whole Minnesoooota winter camping experiences including:
- sh*ting and p**ing in the park, or we like to call it "emerging in mother nature"
- sleeping in a tent on a snow, freezing our a$$ off
- cooking (or burning) our food in aluminium foil wrap
- putting up fire for heat (we kinda abused the lighter fluid, what a great invention)
- dancing around the fire like tribal or nomadic people
- not being able to open our eyes because of too much smoke
- almost hitting a deer on the road
- no showering for 2 days (LOL)
- using Subway's restroom for cleaning and changing
- overeating all kind of junk food in the car
- boldly asking for free ketch up and mayo at McDonalds because they didnt put them out at the dining area
- and so on

It was such a great time and Im looking forward to do it again in the summer, since we'll have a lot more activities to do, such as canoeing, hiking and so on.
Cant wait for this winter to be over! :)