Jaded: Sweet Country Comfort

This week, Jarred, who was Nick's room-mate in Haiti came to visit for a few days. It was great to finally get to meet him, since we've only emailed back and forth. His girlfriend Bree and I have emailed a lot too, and I absolutely adore both of them. They are incredible people, and I'm glad that I have had the opportunity to get to know them. On Jarred's last night here, we decided that we should go up to a campground and have a little cook-out. I'm glad we decided to do it, because we all had a great time. Hopefully Jarred and Bree will come visit sometime soon!!

After we got to the campground and got the fire started and ate some dinner Nick and Sean thought it would be a really good idea to see if they could both fit on a stump that was a ways out in the stream. The stream isn't super deep or anything, but it was running super fast and it was crazy cold, therefore still making it not the greatest idea ever...but they did it!

After that, we went back to the fire area and hung out and talked. I got to see Jarred's pictures from his trip across the Western United States. He got to travel a lot, and his pictures were great. It was fun getting to know him and hearing all of his stories.

Here's some pictures we took throughout the night.

Andi Jo, Sean, and Whitnie (Nick's cousins)

Andi and Whit- Andi was totally enthralled by the fire, and that water bottle!!

Nick and I- This is what happens when you forget that your zoom is on!! Boo...

Jarred and Nick watching Sean chop the wood for the fire- I love Jarred's face in this picture, because as you can tell by the look, Sean was not chopping the wood like a normal person--he was trying to hold it at the same time. Haha.

So, we decided to make Peach Cobbler in the dutch-oven, but forgot to take up coals. So after we had eaten, we let the fire die down to just hot coals and then put the dutch-oven into the fire area. After about 15 minutes without a fire, everyone was freezing, so we decided it was time to start a fire and at the same time get the cobbler to finish cooking...this is what ended up happening:

We ended up all getting warm and the cobbler cooked, but it didn't quite cook all the way through. It was good and moist though...and this is what it looked like after we pulled it out of the fire:

It tasted great.

After we ate some cobbler, we heard some noise, and since there have been quite a few Grizzly Bears seen in that area, Whit had a little bit of a freak out, which we all laughed about (including Whit) and the night ended. We all got packed up and left.

So glad that I could spend time with all of the people there. They are fantastic. I love them all to death. :)