Cold, Fun weekend

This weekend Gypsy and I went to Garden of the Gods in IL to meet some friends and go hiking.

It was supposed to take me about 6 and 1/2 hours to get there but I get really lost due to bad directions and no street signs so it took me 8 hours. Here is the arch on my way through st. louis. Good thing I didn't wreck taking the picture while I was driving.
When I finally got there the sun was setting and it was getting colder and colder. We got a big fire going and before the end of the night there were 8 of us at the campsite. It was my friends and then friends of theirs and then friends of theirs... so, yeah, I got to meet some new people. They were fun and they all liked gypsy so that was cool.

That is the snow on the ground that never melted...

Here is leah trying to stay warm near the fire...

This is the place we hiked around the next day. It was pretty cold and we were tired so we really didn't hike so much but it was nice to just be outside and the park was really pretty. It would be fun to go back there again when the weather is nicer.
It was cold enough that we skipped out of camping the second night and drove back to their house. It was so nice to be in a warm, comfortable bed.