On Saturday we arrived at our camping grounds early and set up our tent and ate lunch. After lunch we waited until 3:00 which was our check in time and then we drove over to Starved Rock State Park and went hiking all day. We saw tons of canyons and there were lots of pretty colorful trees everywhere.
Around 6:00 pm it was starting to get a little bit dark so we left starved rock having only hiked through about half the grounds. We drove back to our camp site and attempted to cook hot dogs on a fire. We were able to make a fire no problem with starter logs my friends had brought but we didn't really have anything to cook our hot dogs with. We had to make due with a little stick we found which kind of worked. At least we didn't starve but we did freeze to death in the tent all night. It went from being really hot during the day to absolutely freezing at night. We all tried to stay as warm as possible under our sleeping bags and mounds of blankets. Some how we managed to make it through the night. During the late morning the wind was really strong though and it was hard to sleep with it constantly blowing across the tent and making loud noises.
We ended up getting up kind of early and just decided to eat breakfast and pack everything up and head to starved rock again. So that's what we did and it turned out to be a decent day. We were able to hike almost all day until about 2:00 when it started raining pretty hard. Unfortunately we were as far away from the main lodge as possible so we got pretty wet walking all the way back. It was all worth it though because we saw some awesome canyons on the second day of starved rock. They were even cooler then the ones we had seen the day before.
Next time we decide to do this we're going in the summer time. I had a great time despite the cold we endured at night. It wasn't cold at all hiking so at least we enjoyed that.
I couldnt choose the best photo's to post on my blog because I thought they were all so great haha. :)
