Dog Folks wrote:
Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.
Pick which one you want.
I like your attitude. Like a lot of us on RV.net, we started out in a tent. We always encouraged our two older kids (7 & 14) to bring a friend, so off we went with our three, plus 2 or 3 friends(youngest DS is severely mentally handicapped so he didn't bring a friend, just lots and lots of diapers ;)). We always strung up a huge 40x30 blue tarp over the whole site and put the 2 tents under it, with the picnic table.
This one camping trip it started raining about 30 min after we got the Big Top set up, so we hurried to pitch the tents and get everything under the dry. We bundled everyone up in jackets, hats and ponchos and off they went to have adventures--no TV or video games, but lots of playing in the creek and running down hills. We kept the campsite mostly dry under the Big Top. I washed and dried jeans & socks every day. Oh, and did I mention it never got above 50 degrees? We have very good sleeping bags.
On the last day, we woke up and the misty rain had finally moistened just about everything, including the picnic table and the tents, and it was about 40 degrees. I had just about had it with the rain, when one of the kids' friends came up, gave me a big hug and said,"Mrs. D, did you know it's been raining for 72 hours?" I was about to make a sarcastic remark when he added, "This is the best camping trip EVER!" And how could I argue with that?:p
Of course, now we have a nice camper, with a DVD player, a nice dry bed and a furnace so we don't have to sleep cold or wet now. But we still reminisce about that camping trip. And we always pack our ponchos.
