Camping, Episode 1

Friday afternoon we got to the campground, checked in, and got started. We got everything set up. Started to fix dinner. Realized we had forgotten the dog's food. Rob and Garrett go to town to get food for her. I stay to begin slicing veggies for the Hobo dinners. Realize too late that Rob has his and my cell phones, the potatoes, the onions, the seasoning for the hamburger, and the mandoline (okay, well, I have the old version of this. Now I need this one. It is awesome.) Anyway, he has all the stuff I need. Lovely. I peel and slice the carrots and do random other prep work while I wait. They come back, we eat, all is well. It is warm out and we decide to leave the A/C on, both for the cooling and the white noise when we go to bed. Rob mistakenly believes the thermostat runs the furnace and the A/C. Not so. We are freezing but there is a lot of noise outside so we snuggle up closer.

Saturday morning Rob made scrambled eggs and sausage. As we begin cleanup in the camper and dishes outside on the picnic table, I realize Spencer wet his bed. He hasn't done this in a LONG time and I guess he was just exhausted. I strip the fitted sheet off the mattress, grab the wet sleeping bag and jammies, and finish cleaning everything else up. Rob and I leave the kids quietly playing Uno at the table while we run to the office to do our 2 loads of laundry.

When we come back, the table is sitting about 3 inches too low. On closer inspection we see the post that holds it up has been pushed WAY down into its housing. Pulling it out, we see ... daylight. Yep, there is a HOLE in the bottom of our camper, which we have owned less than 48 hours. Of course we still don't know the whole story. Chances are no one will ever give it to us straight.

The rest of the weekend (after the yelling, that is) goes fine. Hotter than hell, but fine. We figure out the A/C is not set to a specific temperature with the thermostat, but runs on a dial that turns from "a little cold" to "oh my goodness hell just froze over." (That's apparently where we had it set Friday night. LOL)

I promised pictures. I didn't take many, but here are the high- and low- lights.

The kids in front of the camper.


Rob by the campfire making little pies for dessert.


The housing for the table support post. The large round part is supposed to sit on top of the smaller piece. The large piece sits flush to the floor with the other piece going into the floor to hold the post.


This is the new housing for the table support. It is a cone shape and should give us more stability when we use the table. (It was awfully wobbly before it broke.) There is a piece of wood on the underside of the camper now to cover up the hole and keep any critters from creeping in.


So it was the general amount of drama that we provide everywhere we go. All is well now, I got some mending done in the camper tonight (a zipper needed fixing), and we have most everything we need to go again. Which we are, Friday afternoon. Woo hoo. And we will be bringing along all of the cast iron cookware my grandma sent us. Anybody have a good recipe for ebelskiver?