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Here is a good story with my sister and her family.

S #1 is 16 yrs old. M is 13 and S #2 is 9 yrs old.

First, no one wanted to help pack or get anything ready for vacation, so we didn't leave until 3:30 on Wednesday. We get to the campground and the site they gave us was small & had two mud spots (one very large where the cars had driven through with tire tracks) So, the only place to put the tent was next to the water pipe & mud hole or overtop of tree roots(big ones). And after being out of the car for only about 5 minutes we were being eaten alive by all the man eating mosqitos.
So, S #1 was already complaining "I want to go home" the first five minutes. We got fire wood delivered to our site-$7 a bundle (you aren't allowed to bring your own) and couldn't get it to light(even with lighter fluid). It just wouldn't stay burning. So we had not camp fire the first night and the skies decided to open up around 1 a.m. And of course - OUR TENT LEAKS - It was thundering & lightening right over top of us until 5 in the morning. S#1 got up around 2 - demanded the car keys and went into the jeep for a few hours. I finally got up around 7 & M's pillow was soaked and there were puddles in the tent. WHAT A NIGHT.
We get up have breakfast between raindrops & head to the Cape May Zoo. Kids grumbling all the way. It poured all day, we had a late lunch out thinking it might clear up and get back around 4 to check the weather for the rest of the week to see if we should just go home or stay. Because by this time it was so stinking hot & the mosqitos were worse than before because of the rain. So, I have S #1 crying & boohooing to go home & S #2 crying because she wants to stay!

So we decide to stay and try to start a fire with even wetter wood than before - because it got rained on all night and day!!!! YIPPEE
We get the fire going and had a nice night - it had cooled off a little.
We get up Friday morning & I made breakfast for the kids & let dh sleep. He gets up around 10:30 and wakes up all in a panic at the time and lets the air out of all the mattresses - thinking that we were leaving that morning. I don't know why he thought we were leaving on Friday not Saturday. But the kicker was the pump for the mattresses had broke on Wed. so he used my hair dryer to pump up the mattresses & broke that one,so he used S#1s hair dryer & Broke that one - So we had nothing to pump up the mattresses again!
It just kept getting better & better!
Are you laughing yet - because I am, just thinking about it!

You know the whole time the kids kept saying - why can't we get a camper like aunt Charlottes!

I have had some funny camping trips but this one was a classic.