Once upon a time there were three sisters who decided it would be fun to go camping together. (with their families, of course!)
KeriLyn and her family were first to arrive
with help from all, the tent was up and ready to go.....now we just had to wait for the others.
Before long, they came, a fire was started and we got to cook and eat dinner around the campfire!
It was a lot of fun to camp with cousins and aunts and uncles. We felt bad for cousin Miles because he wasn't feeling to well.....but his parents were good sports and stuck with us! Of course we all enjoyed roasting marshmallows, eating s'mores and other yummy treats.
Even Aunt Alisa and Uncle Ryan came with their 6 month old baby!
After being around the campfire all evening with very nice, mild weather, we headed off to our tents.....at that time, THE RAINS CAME DOWN AND THE FLOODS CAME UP!!! I laid in my sleeping bag (without my air matress....b/c we were really roughing it this time!).....telling myself just like the other 2 times we have camped in the rain since moving here, that we would stay dry....we don't need to worry.....our tent will not leak.....I slept (as well as I sleep when camping). At 5:30 in the morning, Matthew wakes me up and says that we have a puddle in our tent! Luckily it was contained to just our 1/3 of the tent....(it came in handy to have our mansion size tent!)....we moved to the other side of the tent for the last hour and a half of sleep.....we woke up and the rain had let up, so we cooked a YUMMY pancake, eggs, sausage and bacon (with the rain picking up 5 minutes into starting the cooking!).....and, we made a fun memory of cooking and eating breakfast in the rain.
The end of the story.....I brought my sisters and all the kids back to my house (at that point a wet hike just didn't seem fun!), then I went back up to the campsite to help the men clean up the camping stuff!
Moral of this story.....even with rainy weather, with the right company, you can have fun camping! Its was fun, and we would do it again! (minus the rain!!)
2 comments:
Great story and memories. What a fun time to join up with your sisters and go camping. I love the idea. It always seems to rain when we go camping too. It just prepares you better for next time. Right?
haha. love it keri. if you click on that last picture you can tell how really, really tired both miles and i were.
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