Comments on: Camping Out http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Kendra Mareva http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21920 Kendra Mareva Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:18:16 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21920 Awww, fun!! I used to LOVE camping out with my fam in the backyard or for reals at a camping ground. So how did it turn out? :) Awww, fun!! I used to LOVE camping out with my fam in the backyard or for reals at a camping ground. So how did it turn out? :)

]]> By: Gloria Richard http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21919 Gloria Richard Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:50:07 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21919 Backyard camp outs were the norm when I was a kid. Setting the stage: Five girls, two parents, three bedrooms. Each with of us (The Girls) with multiple friends who liked to sleep over at our house. Why? I have no CLUE! Solution: Each spring a tent went up in our backyard, and it stayed up through the summer months. It solved the over-crowding issue with the bedrooms. But, we still had only one bathroom. I have tons of fun, fond memories of those times. Backyard camp outs were the norm when I was a kid.

Setting the stage: Five girls, two parents, three bedrooms. Each with of us (The Girls) with multiple friends who liked to sleep over at our house. Why? I have no CLUE!

Solution: Each spring a tent went up in our backyard, and it stayed up through the summer months. It solved the over-crowding issue with the bedrooms. But, we still had only one bathroom. I have tons of fun, fond memories of those times.

]]> By: Kathy/Cookiedough http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21918 Kathy/Cookiedough Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:49:15 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21918 Um the last time I tented was during a preteens' Survivor games weekend about 4 yrs ago. all the tents were close enough to a house we could use the bathroom. The events were held in the great outdoors next to the sea. I wrangled an outdoor extension cord and ran it into my tent where I had a lamp, a tv and a portable dvd player. my tent also had two air mattresses stacked ( a must for grownups)and a bed tray used for ahem, a bedside table. ;-) I know how to backyard tent! lol Um the last time I tented was during a preteens’ Survivor games weekend about 4 yrs ago. all the tents were close enough to a house we could use the bathroom. The events were held in the great outdoors next to the sea.
I wrangled an outdoor extension cord and ran it into my tent where I had a lamp, a tv and a portable dvd player.
my tent also had two air mattresses stacked ( a must for grownups)and a bed tray used for ahem, a bedside table. ;-)
I know how to backyard tent! lol

]]> By: Dee Davis http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21917 Dee Davis Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:44:40 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21917 That makes me think of your old driveway! YIKES! That makes me think of your old driveway! YIKES!

]]> By: VB http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21916 VB Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:56:18 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21916 LOL. Moral of the story: Never, NEVER sleep by the hole in the tent. LOL. Moral of the story: Never, NEVER sleep by the hole in the tent.

]]> By: Tam Linsey http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21915 Tam Linsey Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:41:56 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21915 Julie, you're a good mom. :) The things we do in support of our kids. Julie, you’re a good mom. :) The things we do in support of our kids.

]]> By: Ti Colluney http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21914 Ti Colluney Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:13:10 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21914 As a former GS for 9 years, an GS leader and a BS leader, and married to a man who has bought a 2 room tent and sleeping bags, I have to say this: Good luck. The last time I went camping was between Orlando and Daytona Beach with the BS. I confiscated a mattress to sleep on from a nearby cabin, and stayed awake most of the night swatting mosquitos with several other parents whilst the bull alligator bellowed nearby, the raccoons tried to steal anything shiny, the bears rattled in the bush near us (there were a LOT of paw prints the next morning) and I encountered snipe hunters. (You know, snipe hunting. Except this was two parents who were not married to each other getting rough and nasty in the woods. Thank goodness I was the one that found them and not one of the boys who would probably have been scarred for life.) I would actually love to camp but not in my garden now that I am in the UK. We have way too many foxes here. Plus my actual grass area is very tiny and half is covered by where the dogs go potty. We are thinking about going down near Corfe castle near Swanage, or maybe in the Peak or Lake district. But it will have to be warmer for me to go. A LOT warmer. And we have to bring the dogs and Octavius (my chameleon) with us. Nothing will compare to my first summer as a canoe instructor. It was a day camp but one night we stayed over. It is held in Tomoka State Park where we go crabbing for blue crabs for dinner and share the site with bobcats, bears, possum, coons, gators, snakes, squitos, skunks and anything and everything else creepy crawly that you can imagine in a swamp in Florida. They asigned one adult per tent of 2-4 girls. Well my tent was full of about 9 year olds. Which was ok but they were afraid of one corner where there was hole in the tent so I slept there. About 3 in the morning I woke them screaming after a racoon had stuck its hand in the hole and yanked my hair and would not let go for about 2 minutes. The only reason it let go was because someone hit it on the outside of the tent. Didn't hurt it but it did let go. Yeah. Fun. I won't go into the dynamics but there were some wet sleeping bags. And I had a bruise from the yank. Those suckers are STRONG! Course it didn't help that I had put them to sleep with ghost stories of local scary things. HAHA. I guess I shouldn't laugh since I probably traumatized those poor girls the rest of their lives with my screams. lol As a former GS for 9 years, an GS leader and a BS leader, and married to a man who has bought a 2 room tent and sleeping bags, I have to say this: Good luck. The last time I went camping was between Orlando and Daytona Beach with the BS. I confiscated a mattress to sleep on from a nearby cabin, and stayed awake most of the night swatting mosquitos with several other parents whilst the bull alligator bellowed nearby, the raccoons tried to steal anything shiny, the bears rattled in the bush near us (there were a LOT of paw prints the next morning) and I encountered snipe hunters. (You know, snipe hunting. Except this was two parents who were not married to each other getting rough and nasty in the woods. Thank goodness I was the one that found them and not one of the boys who would probably have been scarred for life.)
I would actually love to camp but not in my garden now that I am in the UK. We have way too many foxes here. Plus my actual grass area is very tiny and half is covered by where the dogs go potty.
We are thinking about going down near Corfe castle near Swanage, or maybe in the Peak or Lake district. But it will have to be warmer for me to go. A LOT warmer. And we have to bring the dogs and Octavius (my chameleon) with us.
Nothing will compare to my first summer as a canoe instructor. It was a day camp but one night we stayed over. It is held in Tomoka State Park where we go crabbing for blue crabs for dinner and share the site with bobcats, bears, possum, coons, gators, snakes, squitos, skunks and anything and everything else creepy crawly that you can imagine in a swamp in Florida. They asigned one adult per tent of 2-4 girls. Well my tent was full of about 9 year olds. Which was ok but they were afraid of one corner where there was hole in the tent so I slept there. About 3 in the morning I woke them screaming after a racoon had stuck its hand in the hole and yanked my hair and would not let go for about 2 minutes. The only reason it let go was because someone hit it on the outside of the tent. Didn’t hurt it but it did let go. Yeah. Fun. I won’t go into the dynamics but there were some wet sleeping bags. And I had a bruise from the yank. Those suckers are STRONG! Course it didn’t help that I had put them to sleep with ghost stories of local scary things. HAHA. I guess I shouldn’t laugh since I probably traumatized those poor girls the rest of their lives with my screams. lol

]]> By: Kathleen O'Reilly http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21913 Kathleen O'Reilly Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:45:43 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21913 Watch out for the scorpions! heheheh... Watch out for the scorpions!

heheheh…

]]> By: Dee Davis http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21912 Dee Davis Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:02:42 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21912 Sadly that's exactly where I am. Used to love camping and now-- not so much for the ground sleeping. But Girl Scout camp was so awesome! Sadly that’s exactly where I am. Used to love camping and now– not so much for the ground sleeping. But Girl Scout camp was so awesome!

]]> By: Dee Davis http://whinesisters.com/2012/03/16/camping-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21911 Dee Davis Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:01:46 +0000 http://whinesisters.com/?p=9166#comment-21911 We camped out in the backyard once. And the only one who actually made it through the night was my husband. My daughter and I both woke up in the middle of the night and went into the house to bed. But it was still a lot of fun. We roasted marshmallows and sang and all the normal stuff you do. We camped out in the backyard once. And the only one who actually made it through the night was my husband. My daughter and I both woke up in the middle of the night and went into the house to bed. But it was still a lot of fun. We roasted marshmallows and sang and all the normal stuff you do.

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