Claire convinced me to set the tent up in our backyard on Friday afternoon. Then we invited Cole to come have a sleepover. I laid with the kids for a while (I may have dozed a bit myself) and then I went inside and those brave kids slept out all by themselves all night. That is, until the sprinkler came on in the morning. Oops. In my defense, I had turned the sprinklers to the "off" setting before bed... however, I forgot our controller doesn't always register the change unless you jiggle it a bit and so when I woke up to the sound of the spraying water I was very surprised. The kids just hunkered down in their sleeping bags while their water came sprinkling in! Luckily it was hot that day so everything dried out fairly quickly and was ready to go again Saturday night!
We had a picnic at the "campsite" on Saturday evening.
When sun finally went down we lit our campfire (the kids had helped get it all ready to go earlier in the day). We burned a bunch of sticks and branches and pine cones I had saved from yard cleanup. Everything was pretty dry and we had huge flames in the beginning!
You have to have s'mores when you go camping! Yum!
Claire and Cole were ready for another night in the tent. Ty gave them each a glow stick. And thankfully they woke up dry the next morning!
