Big Foot

I broke down and decided to go the family reunion this year. It's not that I hate the reunion or anything, it's just not my style of camping. It's a four day affair, and I'm usually burned out with sitting around picnic tables in the middle of July after one or two days. My solution has been to just not attend the past few years. Since I'm kind of already in Utah, I didn't have a good excuse for not going this year.

So I went, and I spent a lot of time hiking around with my brothers looking for places to shoot guns. After the second day of that something weird happened to my foot. I got back to the campsite, and took my shoe and sock off to inspect the situation. My foot had been a little swollen when I got up that morning, but after the hiking it was bright red, and there were little blisters all over the place. I called it quits with the camping a came home that night. By the time I got back to Orem my foot was huge, and everytime my heart beat, my foot changed colors. It was very weird, and at first I thought maybe it was my imagination that my foot was flashing back and forth between red and white so I made Sarah, Jared, Meredith, and Jake all confirm that they were seeing the same thing. I considered taking a video, but the whole thing was so disgusting that I decided it wasn't the sort of thing anyone would ever want to watch. By Sunday it was so big that I could barely even wedge it into flip flops.

It's getting better now, and I anticipate it will be back to a normal size by tomorrow or the next day. I still have no idea what caused the issue in the first place. Maybe a bug bite, or some sort of plant, who knows? I do know that next time I go camping I won't be wearing flip flops while I'm crashing around in a bunch of bushes trying to set up a tent.