I haven’t been camping since I think Sophmore year in college – so it’s been a long, LONG, time. Madi has been wanting to go camping so we decided (after needing to buy ALL the gear) to go this weekend. While I wanted to go the mountains to do “real” camping, we decided to go to Jordan Lake just in case the girls freaked out as it would only be a 30-minute drive home.
We had a GREAT time on Saturday afternoon. The campgrounds were great, super clean, nice and wooded, really fun. The girls had a blast setting everything up, cooking with real fire (as opposed to gas grills) and having s’mores. Everything was going perfect….until bedtime. Sydney for some reason started getting scared – we still aren’t sure but after 90 minutes of her just not really settling down at all we gave up – Steve and Sydney came home and Madi and I stayed. I grew up camping, I’ve camped a LOT, but again, haven’t been camping in 10+ years and since Steve had the car he also had EVERYTHING with him – basically the only thing I had was my cell phone, camera and a bottle of water and a few sleeping bags & pillows (as I didn’t want him to leave any food for obvious reasons and I knew they’d be back first thing in the morning).
I can at least say Madi had a great night’s sleep….me, not so much. For some reason every sound set me on edge and at 1am I was shining my flashlight out looking for whatever animal was making the sound that was driving me crazy. I know I heard a raccoon as well at one point too. It was a VERY long, sleepless night. At 4am, Madi and I walked to the bathroom and then it just got cold – we both snuggled – we had 4 sleeping bags but she kept saying she was cold…and I felt kind of bad but she still managed to sleep (and I didn’t).
Steve and Sydney arrived at 8am to get us – fortunately he managed to check the weather and knew we only had about an hour before rain and sure enough, just about exactly and hour it started raining so we tossed everything in the car and came back home.
But, it was great overall and Madi wants to go again. We are going to try again …but this time we are going to use our backyard to get Sydney comfortable and we need air mattresses (but maybe I’m just getting old) 
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