Last weekend I went to Yosemite with Judy, AJ, Aimee, Mitch, Ben and Wei-Ling. Realized two things: 1. The only thing preventing me from being more of a hardcore camper is my inability to function properly without a daily shower. (I paid $5 for on the second day we were there and jumped into one the moment I got home on Sunday.) 2. Judy's planning/organizing skills are second to none!

Besides being slightly damp all weekend due to the rain, Yosemite was beautiful and it was pretty awesome to get out of the norm with a group of people I'm usually indoors with (as in sewing or cosplaying). I hadn't been there since I was 6 or 7, so everything was entirely new to me. We rode bikes around the main valley floor, hiked up to a couple different waterfalls, had a picnic by a stream and had two different meals in the rain. Judy also revealed the wonders of a Dutch Oven with apple cobbler, cherry cobbler and this uber-omlette breakfast thing!

I'll be the first to admit I'm a concrete jungle kind of girl, but this whole outdoors thing on occasion is pretty sweet.

More Yosemite photos

Looks like I'll be strapping myself to my sewing machine for the next couple of weeks. Dangit.