So it has been months since I have blogged! But I am turning over a new leaf...weekly updates! My resolve should last for a few weeks at last. This weeks event...our camping trip.
What I love about camping...getting away from it all! No TV, no computer, no phones...just me and my family. We spent the day hiking, fishing, swimming, picking wild flowers, and just enjoying each other's company. The forecast had called for isolated thunderstorms--which we didn't mind. The over cast skies kept it cool and delightful. There was also a fire restriction so we couldn't build a camp fire but where able to cook on our camp stove. In the evening we had about four woodpeckers swooping into camp for our table scraps so the kids kept throwing out food to them. The entertained us for about an hour! We had a wonderful day and evening!
What I hate about camping...at about 9 o'clock at night it started pouring rain. It rained, and rained and rained. To the point that our tent was no longer waterproof. All the kids where sound asleep. I was wide awake however because I had taken the cheap sleeping bag and was therefore freezing (we where above 10, ooo feet in altitude) Not only was water dripping on my forehead every 30 seconds, but I was literally holding my sleeping bag closed with one hand. At about midnight, another car pulled up next to us...I watched there lights as they tried to set up camp in a downpour and then again an hour later as the packed up and drove home (At this point I was trying to figure out how we could do that same thing! Those smart wimps! ) Then came the wind! For those of you who don't know what Wyoming is like I can describe it for you in one word: windy! Our tent literally felt like it was going to lift off the ground with us in it. It was so loud and unnerving that I didn't fall asleep till it died down at about four in the morning! On the upside--I didn't have to worry about wild creatures--because no animal (or human for that matter) would be stupid enough to venture out in that weather! Next time might just go for a day trip!
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I always have trouble sleeping when we're camping, too. I'm generally freezing cold. The ground is very hard. Other campers are perhaps loud and drunk, or, a park ranger has just come by to say there is a bear in the area. Trying to sleep while supremely uncomfortable and/or nervous is what I tend to remember about camping. I've never had water falling on my head or crazy wind, though!
ReplyDeleteNow, let me take a moment to mock your resolution of blogging once a week. I give it another three months at least before you blog again...but I'll try to suspend my disbelief. :)
I, too, wish to remind you that "fall" is in the air...not spring. Thanks for finally updating your blog. Let me ditto your sentiments on camping. We finally got warm enough sleeping bags, (go for those rated to zero degrees), but I still prefer day trips and have experienced Wyoming's wind! I'll bet it was lots of fun cleaning up all the muddy clothes, sleeping bags, tent, car, kids, etc. when you got home. You almost need to go on vacation to recover from a camping trip.
ReplyDeleteI took the bad sleeping bag as well.
ReplyDeleteWhat moms do for their kids.