Camping Gone Wrong

Jeremy and I have been dying to go camping! We bought our very own tent and it was screaming to be used outside of our living room.

So Memorial Day weekend we moved the tent out of the house and to the Fall Creek campground in Caribou National Forest for a weekend getaway with Tyler. We heard that the possibilities of it raining were high, but nothing was going to keep us from our adventure.

After about an hour drive we pull into our campsite only to see everyone camping in trailers. We laughed at them and congratulated ourselves on being truly hardcore for using a tent until we pulled up to our spot...covered in rock. With no blowup bed or sleeping pads we weren't too stoked to see this but again nothing was gong to keep us from this weekend camping!

We set up the tent,

prepared for the rain,

and then went to explore our surroundings.

After a short hike up to a beautiful waterfall and a picture or two the rain started so we headed back to camp to see if we could cook something before everything got too wet.

The boys gave it a good effort until it really started coming down.  So we headed for safety in the tent to wait out the rain and get warm. When the rain slowed down Ty and Jer went out to hike and explore but I just enjoyed my warm sleeping bag laying on the rocks and reading a good book. We relaxed and surprisingly were able to cook dinner and dessert on our fire. We climbed into the tent to watch a movie and enjoy the night when we realized that we were getting wet in the tent. The blankets that were under us were soaking! The whole tent had water in it. No wonder we were freezing. We tried driving around the "town" nearby to get towels but there really was nothing. We did what we could to fix everything, dry it out and we were eventually able to enjoy "THOR" (except the last 5 minutes...when the laptop died) on the laptop in our "cozy" tent before heading to "sleep". Sleep is something that we did not get a lot of that night. The mixture of wet, freezing, and in pain from all the rocks caused for a rough night. 

So the trip was cut short. Early the next morning we headed home. We considered setting up the tent in the living room that night to finish our camping weekend but I think we were all really over it. 

So the trip didn't end up how we planned but it makes for a good memory!