Road Trip: Quartz Mountain

This weekend my sister and friend and I took a gander down to Quartz Mountain to watch/view the performances and art/photography gallery from the summer arts institute camp. For some reason, they said I was in charge, made me do all the driving, and blamed me if anything went wrong :P All the students at the camp work for two weeks in their discipline and then perform or have a gallery, and I was blown away by how incredible they all were. I had a friend attending for art, and another for creative writing, and of course they were both wonderful!

We camped Friday night in a tent, and that was (of course) quite an adventure with broken tent zippers and grumpy camp security. We spent at least an hour and a half experimenting with a fancy camera doing light writing and other fun things, which turned out far cooler than I anticipated! Props to my sister for all her great photography skills!

We also had all sorts of up close wildlife encounters totaling at 5 skunks, 2 porcupines, and 1 deer (that was was literally only 3 feet away), in addition to all the bees, scorpions, bugs, etc. that you usually see.

Hiking and swimming in the lake did not happen, because we woke up tired from not sleeping well and feeling rather gross and dirty to be going to fine arts performances. But we drove around and saw the lake and mountains, and ate lunch at a tiny little restaurant, which was fun. We generally had a grand time, with no major mishaps to make into an interesting blog post, lol

In other news, I'm off to orientation and enrollment tomorrow, which means I'm going to have to decide what I'm going to minor in, and what language I'm going to learn. I hate decisions :/