Stories from the Eagars

Happy New Year everyone!! 

We had a fab New Years Eve… a heap of us went camping again out in the desert somewhere, brought heaps of music, food & booze and had ourselves a little party!

We spotted some camels around the campsite earlier when we arrived and we seemed to put them off coming our way so settled down to setting up tents, bbq’s, campfire and most importantly the bar!!

Once the menial tasks were done, the main tasks of eating & drinking began!  We were all sat round the fire chatting etc when someone spotted a little lizard crawling up one of the cool boxes.. it was sooo cute!  We removed it from camp incase one of the dogs decided to eat it and carried on with our fun & games!  About an hour later, someone then pipes up “Come here & look at this?”  We figured the lizard came back but no…. it was a scorpion!!  After a few prods with a stick and photos being taken, we  decided to flick it into the fire.. sorry but  we weren’t chancing that coming back into camp!!

The rest of the evening went as expected, eating, drinking & making a beer bush (as you do!)  To explain this bizarre ritual, Ian decided instead of putting his empty tin of beer in the bin he was putting it on this shrubby bush thing next to the camp fire… so we decided to go one better and started adding all sorts, party blowers, plastic cups, glow sticks etc….  In the end, it was quite artistic looking and worthy of a exhibition in the Tate Modern!!  

We saw in the bells … thanks to Lu having downloaded big ben’s chimes on her ipod along with Auld Lang Syne and other random new year songs!  Had a few more glasses of the bubbly stuff and then headed for bed!

We woke up to hot air balloons and paragliders overhead & some unexpected visitors in our camp!  The Camel had returned ….. with several others!!  They had a sniff around, came REALLY close (which I did NOT like) then decided we weren’t that interesting after all and toddled off!  We had sausages & bacon for brekkie, sat around for a while then got packed up ready for the off!

It was sooo much fun, even if it was FREEZING!!  Well, maybe not freezing in the scottish sense of the word but it was definitley cold for being out here!!

Off for a snooze now to catch up on what I missed last night….(no not partying…. more worried if the camels would somehow would manage to undo the zip on my tent & snuggle in beside me!!) 

A few sample pics of the beer bush, lizard, hot air balloon & our early morning visitors!  The rest as are usual on my flickr page!!