Camping Builds Character

Specially when you do it in the rain. Well, that's what we told the kids. Shannon and I took the kids camping Thursday and Friday nights. Of course things were going great. We knew there was a chance of rain, but we hoped it wouldn't be so bad. We got there and got set up. We added a extra rain tarp to the big tent. We had pre-made dinner packs and they were great. After dinner and clean-up it started to lightly rain. We had put up a rain tarp over the table so we sat there for a while with the kids discussing how long it would last and what we were going to do. We ended up putting everyone in Shannon's van and driving around the whole park. We told the kids were we scouting out stuff for the next day. The rain just kept coming and harder and harder. Thank God there really wasn't very much thunder and lighting. After driving around we went back to the site and saw that the girls tent was surrounded by water. Oh Crap. We had let the girls pick their spot and really didn't pay attention to where the water would run. Turns out it ran to their tent. Shannon and I left the kids in the car and took a look. There was about 1-2 inches of water under their tent, but most of the contents were dry. We grabbed what we could and went to the big tent. It was in better shape and we decided that we could all fit. It was a little tight fitting 6 in a 5 man tent, but 3 were small. We manage to get everyone in and ready for bed. Shannon and I didn't sleep real great. Danny had everyone up at about 1:00 am yelling "MORE MILK" at the top of her lungs. The next morning wasn't so bad. We got everyone fed before it started to lightly rain again. We cleaned up and headed out again. Shannon and I almost gave up but the ranger station said it was suppose to end and just be cloudy. No rain was planned for Friday night. We took the kids to town and had pizza. When we went back We went canoeing and they did great. Brandon had one melt down about a turtle. It was fine till the turtle went under the water and then he freaked. I guess he didn't like not knowing where it was. Later that night Jim came up around dinner time. We manage to get everything dry and set up another tent. We did have fun. The kids did great. I took pictures, but I need a new camera. They are all grainy.