This weekend was certainly interesting. In an effort to transform me into more of an “outdoorsy” person, my boyfriend decided that we should take a camping trip with a bunch of friends. Mind you, I am not what you might call a girly girl. I enjoy the outdoors (especially when I’m rowing), I like good beer and I’m a college football fanatic. But, for some reason, I just can’t see the attraction of camping when you won’t be doing any hiking or kayaking.
To avoid conflict, I agreed. Boy was that the biggest mistake of my life! It rained, it poured and then…it hailed. In case you’ve ever wondered, cheap tents don’t make good protection from golfball-sized hail. Nope, not even a little bit. We spent most of the weekend in our tents playing Scrabble. I love Scrabble but not for eight hours straight. Why didn’t we go home you ask? We’re “outdoorsy” and “outdoorsy” people do not go home because of a simple thing like hail.
Cooking food also proved to be difficult because we couldn’t keep a fire lit and our camping stove ran out of fuel or whatever keeps that thing hot. Have you ever had cold baked beans from a can? If not, I suggest you try them because they are rather delicious although I would never admit this to my boyfriend. At the end of the weekend we were all pretty sick of each other and ready to retreat home to mope in solitude.
Summary of the story, if rain is expected do not go camping. In addition, if you are going to go camping don’t bring a cheap tent.
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