Thursday, October 1, 2009

A yurt by any other name

T-minus 24 hours before our departure to The Pinery in Grand Bend, Ontario.  I was emailing with two good friends this week who live out of state, and they were like, "you're doing what this weekend?!?".  Right.  Somehow we got talked into joining a group of 18 friends to head off to some random Canadian campgrounds where we will sleep in "yurts" for the weekend, so I've been telling people that we're going "yurting". 
 
Wikipedia definites a "yurt" as a portable, felt-covered, wood lattice-framed dwelling structure traditionally used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia.  (Umm, Kim Kim, is that you in this picture??)  Anyway, I'm holding my breath that ours will better resemble, say, an upscale log cabin in rustic Pottery Barn-like furnishing :). 
 
In the meantime, I've been working on my jokes for weekend, and this is what I have so far: "So some teachers, engineers, and a nurse, doctor, lawyer & psychologist walked into a yurt..."

 




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