A Trial Campout

We are going camping with a group of our friends next Friday, so we thought it would be a good idea to do a trial campout to see how things would go. We planned a trip over to Nathan’s parent’s house to do our camping.

I told Mandy and Dallin about it the morning before we went and Mandy started packing for it right then. She wore that enormous backpack around all day and asked me CONSTANTLY when we were leaving to go camping. I had no idea that she would be so excited about the prospect of camping. We got over there and started setting everything up. Dallin loved pounding in the stakes with his “whammer-bammer-hammer”. He was really good at it too. Those stakes didn’t budge an inch. Mandy was so excited about using her new flashlight that she couldn’t be bothered with waiting until it was actually dark. Nope she wanted to help Nathan and Dallin see how to put up the tent and so shown her flashlight out into the light of day (instead of the dark of night).Layton was a big helper too. He participated with each step of the set up process and then even went into the tent after it was up to do a little inspection to make sure that it was up to his standards.

He approved whole heartedly. We roasted hotdogs and marshmallows over our fire that was “very fiery”, according to Dallin. Dallin told us a scary ghost story (that really wasn’t scary at all). Then it was time for bed. Layton and I didn’t stay, instead we went back home and slept in our own beds. We slept blissfully.

So did Mandy. Like a rock Nathan said. Nathan and Dallin on the other hand had a rough night. Apparently there are a lot of animals out there. Dogs barking. Geese honking. Roosters crowing. Dallin claims that the problem was that the geese were tricking the dogs and making them bark because the geese were quacking like ducks. He also claimed that the rooster crowed right in his ear. It was also kind of chilly that night. I warned Nathan it would be, but he didn’t believe me, so he slept cold.

Dallin also slept cold for most of the night because instead of getting IN his sleeping bag, he slept UNDER his sleeping bag until Nathan told him to get into it. After that crazy night I was a little worried that Dallin wouldn’t want to go camping again. When I asked him, he told me excitedly that he wanted to go camping again because he wanted some more roasted marshmallows. He’s a boy after my own heart. Roasted marshmallows are my favorite part of camping too. It just wouldn’t be camping without them.