Sunday, June 24, 2007

Fireflies in Forest Park

Last year, there was a going-away party that we had for our friend Jen in Forest Park. We camped there and luckily got to see lots of fireflies at night. So I decided to arrange a trip to go there again this year and hopefully see some fireflies. Ten people came in total, with five of us camping overnight.
Here's a photo overlooking part of the park. All the tents below are from a Scout group who were there for the weekend. We tried to find an area far away from them so we wouldn't be bothering each other:
Here's where we set up camp...we liked that the park has carts so we could easily carry all of our stuff in one trip:
Here's Doug and Robin playing catch:
Here's Emiko and Ayako walking over the stream (which is a great place to see fireflies at night) that went by our campsite:
Here's Tatsuo and Daniela (taking photos):
Later on it got dark and we could go and see many fireflies in the woods. It's tricky trying to get a photo of them, so this is the best I could do (they don't sit still well for photos):
It was after watching fireflies that we started cooking dinner on the BBQ:
and so getting late before actually eating:
Afterwards, we relaxed and had fun playing with candles as you can see Jack doing here:
The next morning it started raining shortly after getting up. We set up a tarp over a picnic table and relaxed. Soon though, Sam and I started playing frisbee golf in the rain:
Later, we found a tall bamboo pole and started having a javelin-throwing contest:

As well as trying to do caber toss (bamboo toss I guess) with it:
Overall, a very fun, but a little wet, weekend.

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