Mona the Camel

I know, I know... you can all say it, I've been a slacker. We had a busy and very eventful summer but when I sat at the computer, I just couldn't come up with anything I wanted to write.

Last month was mine and Scott's 10 year anniversary. WOW does time fly. Anyway, I tried to convince him to go to Jamaica to visit my dad for our 10 year, but Scott refused. Then, the closer it got, the emptier my bank account seemed to be getting, so we decided to head to the San Juan's for a weekend get away. We are not strangers to the San Juan Islands. We've gone a few other times. One time was off season, we stayed on Orcas Island in February. It snowed... it rarely snows in the San Juans. The next time was about 5 years ago, probably for our 5th anniversary or so. We camped on Friday Harbor and it rained... poured actually. For the ENTIRE weekend. We had puddles in our tent. Terrible.

So this time we had no clue what to expect. Turned out we had perfect weather. Perfect camping weather. We did lots of fun things including rent something called a Scoot Coupe which we drove around the entire perimeter of the Island. I also managed to kill a bird.

Now... Mona the Camel. Mona was about a mile away from our campground across from the winery. She's a local celebrity. We weren't actually going to stop by and visit Mona but some guy at the gas station asked us if we were going and we said of course!! So he gave us an apple to give to Mona.

Which meant, we hunted Mona the camel down and gave her an apple.


Mona LURVES APPLES.... I mean REALLY REALLY loves them.

She wanted more apples.... if I didn't have any, she was going for my clothes.

She even bit me in the butt. Then... as quick as that, she was done with us. We had no more apples, so she wandered off. But Mona was fun. We meant to go back and give her more apples but we never got around to it.