Successful Camping Trip

This past weekend was so awesome. The weather was great and everything worked out very well. There were two lessons learned on this trip.

1. Children should be taught at home not to drink bath water.

2. Raccoons LOVE Hillshire Farms Honey Ham

Explanation #1

After a complete melt down in the State Park Showers (because Colden HATES water spraying in his face, and that was happening constantly) Colden finally calmed down when his turn was done. I finished up and went on the dressing side of the shower. Colden started stomping around (in his sandals) in the pool of water that was left going down the drain. Before I could stop him, he crouched down and drank water off the PUBLIC SHOWER floor. OH MY GOODNESS. I nearly ran out of there naked and screaming. I freaked him out even more than the shower did, and he commenced screaming AGAIN. Yuck. He always drinks his bath water at home, which is no big deal, but now we have decided to not let it even happen at home because of what is expected other places. The only respite I got was in realizing that we had just showered for at least 10 min with water and soap and hopefully SOME of the funk had been washed down the drain.

Explanation #2

Night one we had put our food box up in the car but left out the cooler because we really didn't have any food in it. About 2 am, I woke Cliff saying "CLIFF, something is in our Cooler!" So Cliff looks out and sees that the cooler is open and there was stuff out of it. He got out and decided that a raccoon had dug out the honey ham lunch meat, opened it, and ate all the contents. He also got out the pickles but was unsuccessful at opening it. Well, Cliff put the cooler in the car, and we got a good laugh.

Night two we really hadn't made much trash, and our trash was hanging on a "raccoon safe pole" so we didn't take it to the dumpster. About 2 am the second night, I woke Cliff saying " CLIFF, something is in our trash!" So Cliff looks out and sees that the trash had a small hole in it, and the honey ham lunch meat package was laying on the ground. He said "The ham container is out, that is just creepy!" So this time Cliff took all the trash up to the dumpster. We got a good laugh again, and actually it keeps coming up and making us laugh again and again.