Hello gals.
How'd we get from Mr. Spice to camping??


We used to take the girls camping all the time when we lived in Atlanta, we'd drive the 3+ hrs to get to the Smoky Mtn...BEAUTIFUL!!! And it would be dark by the time we arrived, so we'd set the girls in the car and put up the tent in record time (nowadays it's so much easier than a Brady Bunch tent)
There are no shower houses, no hot or even warm water, just freezing cold mtn water, but thankfully they had bathrooms...but they had spiders in the corners...EWWWW (I'm joing the spiderless group) anyway...

Once, when we went up there, my middle (then the youngest at 3) puked all over the sleeping bag. Poor thing, I had to take her in the bathrooms and wash her off with freezing cold water. I thought her teeth were going to shatter they were chattering so bad. Threw the bag outside of the tent (I figured if a bear really wants it, he can have it. Yes, bears walk through the campsites, ooh another fun story)

So, now we have moved up in the camping world. Our friends have a very nice 30' trailer with HEAT & A/C, 3 TV's, a microwave and toilets with NO SPIDERS!!! LOL.
Yes, yes, that's so not camping, but hey, we've been through the whole sleepign on rocks and I'm pretty much over it.

Okay, for the second story...

My oldest (7 at the time) was placing Frito's across the road and down the hill to our campsite and our friend who lives there asked what she was doing...
"I'm trying to catch a bear"

I am not a huge fan of the outside myself. I just don't how you guys do it. I guess I am too city girl. I would be like in the Parent Trap when they took obnoxious soon to be stepmother camping. I would be her!

Tracy there is not reasonable explanation for this off topic thread. We stop trying to fight it and just go with it and instead.

hubby has been bugging me for years to go camping and I keep putting him off saying at first that my daughter was too young and then that my son was too young but that excuse is running out as they are both old enough now, I will have to come up with something else as I am not a big fan of camping.

Shaa...I'll just have to remain a "city slicker" camper...and that is just fine with me!

But, you go and enjoy the experience of it!

wren

There is nothing like sleeping under the stars and falling asleep to nature's lullaby. I grew up tent camping on islands on Lake Ouachita in Hot Springs, Arkansas. We would go every weekend and tent camp, and water ski.

My soon to be ex had never been camping until last spring, he decided he didn't like it when I had a friendly encounter with a rather large racoon. Rocky (that's my name for him) came up for a chat by the fire, I had to let Rocky know that he wasn't welcome at that time to come back and visit when other campers were there. My husband didn't think it was cute and wanted to go home then. Such a city boy.

The animals wouldn't bother me it would be insects that I am not fond of.