For Memorial weekend, we went camping with several of our friends. We planned this out months ago and were thrilled when we saw at the beginning of last week that the holiday weather would be sun, sun, and more sun. Our excitement turned to depression when Thursday arrived with the dismal news that the weekend weather would be rain, rain, and more rain.
We decided we were going to make the best of it and went anyway prepared with two canopies, umbrellas, and extra clothes. We were off to a good start on Saturday and had the usual fun - sitting around the fire laughing our heads off, keeping the kids away from the river, cooking smores, and of course yummy dutch oven dinner and dessert.
The weather held up fine even through Saturday night, so we were of course thrilled. Sunday morning we introduced our friends to chocolate chip pancakes, and in return, they made Dr. Pepper pancakes for us. John said they tasted great, but I had to pass as I didn't want a caffeine buzz that early in the morning. Afterwords, we started roasting Starburst, another camping adventure I'd never even heard of. While tasting the delicacies, the rain began. Just a light drizzle, nothing we couldn't handle with the kids set up under one canopy with a craft, and us adults under another canopy near the fire.
Camping resumed as normal, until an hour later when it began pouring. We all hibernated in our tents, only coming out for lunch, and then back to the tents for nap time to see if the rain would go away soon. By 2:30 after 5 hours of non-stop rain, we had a pow pow and decided enough was enough, so we packed up all of our stuff...in the rain. Our tent is still set up in the backyard drying out.
Despite the rain, we had a wonderful time and finished up the camping trip by still doing the camp dinner back at one of the neighbors houses, and pancakes for breakfast at another neighbor's house Monday morning. Now I just need to finish the camfire smelling laundry that is piled up in my laundry room!
Playing games in the tent waiting for the rain to pass.
4 comments:
That's what you get for camping instead of laying concrete in Dad's backyard. :-)
Anything is more fun with friends!
at least you have a big tent!
I can remember camping at Yellowstone and it RAINED all night. The tent leaked and we were soaking!
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