Ok this was only on the summer bucket list but it is done! We went camping this past weekend in Charleston SC. yea....the weekend that it was 105. (and is still HOT). Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE the heat and it really wasn't the heat that bothered me...it was the whole weekend. It was just a BIG comedy of errors. I kept looking around for Laural and Hardy...they had to be near by. First of all Thursday night we didn't finish getting things together until almost 11:00. (this from two people who are usually in bed by 9:30 at the latest.) We were taking the car so it had to be packed Thursday. Friday I get up late for work. Hurry through my morning and made up the time...only to forget to wake up Lee. I get to work and NOTHING went right. I found out my new seating arrangement for our cubes in the new office. Lets just say that I won't have far to walk to the bathroom and I will be sure to see everyone as they come in for the day! Front and center in front of the bathrooms. (REALLY!!!???) How about the boiler room? Is that space available? I could not concentrate after that I was so upset. I could only think about all the things that I still had to do at home. I forgot a drink at lunch and had the driest chicken strips this side of the desert! That chicken was dehydrated for sure! I only took a half hour for lunch so that I could leave 30 minutes early which means.....no lunch time nap. Two things I need to be happy. Tea in the morning, and MY NAP! I go back to work and of course nothing was important all week until FRIDAY afternoon. I busted my butt and was wrapping things up at 3:45 when I remembered...I was suppose to leave at 3:30 to get Greta to the kennel on time. (Once you are behind at the beginning of the day, I don't think that you ever catch up.) I race home, (thanks Gracie Grand (My Grand Prix) Grab Greta and off to the kennel we go. She was ok until we were walking in the door and then she knew I was going to be gone for a while. I felt guilty. But no time for that! I got home and finished packing what little bit of food we were taking. Twislers, cookies, trail mix, water, water water and more water. Oh and peanut butter and jelly just in case. (To many good restaurants in Charleston to cook at a campfire!) Lee came home after forgetting his wallet at work and had to go back. We finally head off down the road and Lee doesn't have his phone. Since he was going golfing Saturday, and I had to drop him off, and he had to call me to pick him up...we needed the cell phone. Back to the house we go! No big deal. We only made it one exit up the interstate. We get back home and he can not find it. We know he had it when he was on his way home because he called me to make sure that I was ready. Dresser? Nope. Counter? Nope. Pants? Nope. His truck is famous for swallowing cell phones between the seats. Nope not there. I finally call his phone with mine while he is in the house looking again, and I am in the car waiting...I hear his phone ringing...IN THE TRUNK!! Oh look it is in your golf bag that was in the trunk. So much for making to the campsite before dark! The ride down to Charleston was ok. We get to the campsite and it is NOT what we expected. Did I mention that it was 105! They take us to our site. It was a small site and in the tent next to us was a young couple with five kids. We have a 6 person cabin tent with a screen porch. A small site was not going to work and did I mention five kids?? We ask the ranger if they have one of the other sites available. "Sure" just on the other side of the tent with five kids?? Really dude? They finally put us across the campground with no one around us. Sorry...I just wanted peace and quiet if I was going to have to be at the campsite all the next day...So we start unpacking the car before it gets to dark. Thank goodness we have done this before. We get the tent up...with only one or two incidents. The front was up and standing, the middle was up, the back was on the way up as the front fell. Laural and Hardy? (I know they were there, I just know it) Tent was finally up. Check. Air mattress. Check. Sheets and pillow. Check. Chairs. Check. Food and cooler. Check. "Is the tub of camping supplies in the backseat? No you said Thursday night you had all the gear out of the garage. Oh...ummm...yea about that."
Now mind you, the tent is up, the bed is up and we are soaking wet because it is STILL 105! I thought of what was in the "Camping tub" and since I wasn't cooking we should be ok. Thank goodness I left the flashlights in the other camping bag that was managed to be packed in the car. We left the "fly cover" that goes over the top of the tent off since the whole top of the tent is screen. We got undressed and laid on the bed under the stars...and the camp fan blowing. After all the "Oh mans!!" that filled our day, we could do nothing but laugh and thanks God that we had each other and could still laugh. Although I did decide that Saturday night we would be sleeping under the hum of the air conditioner in the hotel room.
