I know this is off subject but you CAMP!!!!!!. I love to camp and that topper is perfect. Wife will not tent camp and that is what I love. I meet the guys for about two 5 day outings fishing. I have a big cabin tent and all (plus) the accessories. I have so much I take two seats out of the van and load up. I even have a small A/C I mount in the sidewall of the tent. Smoker, dutch oven, cast iron pans everything etc... Linda thinks I must be a joke as if you need it I have it. Do you tent or trailer or cabin camp? Have you camped at WDW?
Sorry for the hijack but as you can see I love to camp.
Oh no need to apologize.
Heck yeah I camp! Ain't no way to camp besides a tent baby! I was raised on tent camping and it's the way that I raised my kids too. Tents and sleeping bags are the way to go. We all love it! I can talk about camping almost as much as I can talk about Disney.
We've never camped at Disney but I'm looking into it for my niece and her husband and their Boy Scouts.
We have all of the accessories too but you've got me beat with the A/C.
We only have a fan. I have two big totes that I keep packed just for camping. My mother game me her "utensil box" that she used when we went camping as a family when I was little. It's nothing but old utensils...forks, spoons, spatulas, old time can opener, etc. and it's in an old Tupperware container but it's like a treasure to me.
It holds a lot of memories. For a long time, we even used the same tent that my Daddy and Mama took us camping in when I was a little girl. Eventually, the tent just wore out from all of the use and we had to break down and buy another.
In my book, if you're going camping, that means you're going fishing too. And, before you ask, yes, I do bait my own hook and take my own fish off. Worms, crickets, grubs, whatever it takes. When we catch the fish (yes I said when not if
), I fry them up and we have fish and homemade french fries. Oh I wish that I were camping right now!
We have so many funny camping stories that I could share. Shocker! I know!
Like the time that Lacey and I had a rude awakening in the middle of the night. I had my two totes out on the picnic table benches and I heard a loud pop. I didn't move but kept listening and I heard it again. I looked around in the tent and saw Lacey staring right at me. She said "where's dad?". John was right beside me. Then, we heard growling and another pop.
I punched John awake and we all started listening to the growling and then we heard scratching around. I had never ever been scared while camping but this was a bit scary. We unzipped the tent a little at the top to try and see out but it was too dark. We got the flashlight out but still couldn't see anything. The growling went around to the back of the tent and we could hear more scratching. Then, it stopped.
Once we realized that whatever was growling was gone, we started giggling and saying what if we had seen a huge shadow on the side of the tent when we turned the flashlight on whatever it was. What if this? What if that?
John was the first out of the tent and, mind you, it was pitch black dark still and John was trying to keep the flashlight beam in our area so it wouldn't disturb the other campers. Lacey told John that she heard that you could pee all around your campsite to keep varmits out. Of course, that made us all giggle even more. But, John, being the ever protective father/husband, proceeded to pee all the way around the tent.
We couldn't see anything out and about so we went back in the tent and fell asleep laughing to ourselves. When we woke up, we saw that we had been visited by raccoons who had tried to get into our totes. There were paw prints everywhere.
I couldn't believe that the little suckers tried to get my stuff. We had never had that happen before. Then, I realized that Hunter had left out a bag of bubble gum that we had bought at the Ranger Station. Just thinking of the raccoons fighting over the bubble gum made us laugh all over again.
We also have some not so funny stories. Like the time we were the only ones, I kid you not, in the entire section of the State Park and the Ranger came by to tell us that there was a storm coming. He said that if it got too bad we were to go into the bathhouse and lock ourselves in. He said that he'd drive by throughout the night if the weather permitted. So, we stayed in the tent all night long. We could hear it raining and and the wind blowing but we were dry in the tent so we stayed put. Next morning, we stepped outside and it looked like a tornado had hit. Tops of trees were twisted out and it looked like a river had split up and run down either side of our tent. The ranger came around and said that a tornado had been spotted in the area around 1:00 that morning. Guess we slept through it.
See, I told you that I could talk camping almost as much as I could talk Disney!
We were bouncing off the walls when we heard. I don't know how it will pan out when we're actually there, but right now it's so so so so so so exciting! I at least want to be there at some obscure time I could never be there otherwise, I'm thinking 4am, though I'd really love to see the sunrise from inside the Magic Kingdom!
. We were told to put our stuff in a locker, so we found one and had to figure out that by ourself. Then there was no one to tell us which way to go, we ended up in a single rider line 
. The locker rooms were so packed I didnt see anyone who worked there so I had to walk through people trying to find someone to help. I finally found a CM or worker whatever you call them there and she was busy with a guy threating to call the cops if he didnt get his stuff out of the locker. I dont know if he forgot what locker he had or if he couldnt get it open. Anyway he was being really nasty and the worker was about to call security 
. I was so glad to get out of there ! It was just so unorganized 
And I want Mama to see that WHALE!! 
) I'll be excited to see your pictures and hear how everyone likes it!
