This is Melanie. She recently turned 30 and decided to "turn 30 sailing the high seas." Which translated into a weekend o' pirating. Naturally, this included camping. So, a group of us packed up our sleeping bags and went looking for adventure. Six hours later we finally made it to our campsite at the Big Trees State Park in Calavaras County (Calavaras means skull in Spanish. Rather fitting don't you think?). We made s'mores and then slept under the stars.
Saturday was full of pirate adventure and pirate miracles. First, we went to see more of these "Big Trees." Indeed, they are quite large. Here we are sitting atop a tree that was over 1000 years old when they (sadly) cut her down. Along the trail we "walked the plank" (a boardwalk built over part of the trail) while some practiced their pirate accents. Later we went to the "Moaning Cavern" which turned out to be rather anticlimactic, except for the pirate gold. Someone had found a bag of the chocolate gold coins and left them throughout the cave for Melanie to find. Melanie called it a pirate miracle, but only later realized they were meant for her and were not normally found in the cave. Later we wandered around the historic town of Columbia, an old gold mining ghost town that has been recreated.
The climax of the day came when we stopped at the Ghirardelli Outlet where we I had an amazing fudge sunday with dark chocolate fudge. Yum!! Overall, it was a deliciously exciting weekend.
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