[Dianezbi]

One of our funniest camping trips was a couple years ago. We decided to camp outside Ocean City, MD. Our kids were about 3 and 5. The drive was long(about6 hours). We dedided to leave early evening so maybe the girls could sleep a little. We go at our site around 11 or 12 that night. When we were pitching our tent, (we got a spot by some water), we were attacked by mosquitos. The girls started getting attacked and were crying. We did have some repellant and globbed some on all of us. The wind started picking up and the tent was hard to put up. We finally settled in for a good nights sleep. We did have fun at the beaches and playground. It was a sunny day. We were walking around the campground talking with some folks and I was checking out everyones set-ups. I noticed some tarps up, but didnt think anything of it. Of course, we are not professional campers with everything you need. We are known to forget hammers and string. Anyway we didnt put the tarp up, and at midnight we had a terrencial downpour. It was not funny at the time, but we left sopping wet and got a hotel room for 75 bucks which we didnt have.The next day was miserable because we had to pack up all our wet things and fit them in the car. I put all wet things in the truck and we drove with the cooler and stove in the back seat. Then it was Fathers Day , so we stopped and had some lunch at a cute little place on the way home. Not quite the perfect vacation like we planned, but I think we learned a couple things since then.lol