On the camping trip my group, Zoe, Maddie, and I were taking landscape pictures. We captured the milky way with many different landscapes. We had it over the lake, with trees in front, and mountains. Taking the picture was quite tiring, we ended up pulling an all nighter, but I'll get into that story later. We started taking pictures at 11 pm across the lake and returned to the campsite an hour later because we couldn't see the milky way that well yet, but little did we know, we were facing the wrong way. At 1 am we headed back out to the lake and started again thinking that it just hadn't risen enough, but after a few pictures, we were confused. I had a star app that we looked up the location of the constellation Cygnus, which is in the middle of the milky way, but the pictures weren't turning out how we wanted. Then just on a gut feeling I turned the camera behind us to take a picture, and there it was! I then told everyone we were with because we weren't the only ones struggling to find the milky way. After we tired of the landscape we had, we moved down the path further and further, until we ended on the other side of the walk way, opposite of our campsites. We then spent a good hour or so taking final pictures until we decided to retire.
Now the story of our all nighter. We were up playing uno and other card games and just talking and telling stories until it was time to take pictures, 11 o'clock. We take pictures for an hour or so and head back to our campsite. From there we decide to go back at 1 and take pictures until 3. So when 1 rolls around we stop what were doing and go take pictures. Instead of just taking pictures until 3, we end up taking pictures until more like 4:30. By then were all tired and want to go to sleep, but we come back to the campsite and some one says, "I want to stay up until sunrise", and being teenagers we are all for it and bet against each other on who will fall asleep. And so we're all talking and having fun, fighting to stay awake and freezing. Then we all move to go lay on the dock. Now granted this dock moves and is pretty wobbly, so being the tired people we were, we were rocking it back and forth as hard as we could without falling off. Eventually we end up all laying down looking at the stars, and we stay like that for a good half hour. We start to move, struggling to stay awake, trying to get comfortable. When finally the sky starts turning orange and red, and purple and pink. The sky kept getting lighter and lighter, but no sun. When we finally realize. We can't see the sun from where we're sitting. We then proceed to raise our voices a little at the person. But then we go over to where we can see the sun and watch it for a little bit, and walking makes us realize we aren't tired anymore, so we went fishing until 9:00 am. After that we went to sleep.
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