Cranes from our campsite,550 x 412 - 55k - jpg
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City Girls Camping
My family and I have always lived in the city. When I was eleven years old my divorced mother decided to bring my two sisters, my aunt, and I camping. Expecting this to be an adventurous vacation, none of us realized how unprepared we were for this trip.
When we got to the campsite, which was about thirty minutes away from Jamestown, the tent was the first disaster. Since we lost the directions on how to set up the tent, it took an hour and forty-five minutes for all five of us to put the tent together and secure it.
Starting the fire pit was next. We noticed that we were supposed to bring our own rocks to put around the pit; however, my mom did not think to bring any. So she suggested that we go to each abandoned fire pit and take one rock. After gathering enough rocks and placing the wood in the middle, we thought all you had to do was throw the match into the center and sticks would begin to crackle. Unfortunately that did not work.
We gave up on starting the fire and headed to see Jamestown. It was the hottest day of the year so walking around outside looking at old Indian material was not the highlight of our trip, but we made the best of it. As we were leaving to go back to the campsite my mother saw a stack of apartment books, and wanted to use the paper to start the fire. When we arrived back at the campsite there were two guilty squirrels digging through our trash that we had left out before we rushed to Jamestown. Shredded paper and half eaten food were strewn across our campsite. Luckily my aunt put three bags of food back in the car before we headed out. While my sisters and I started cleaning the mess, my mom worked on starting the fire again. This time she got the flames to produce.
As we ate, watching the sun go down, we reminisced through all of the extreme events that happened earlier that day. As we talked about it we could not stop laughing and joking about how horrible we were at camping. Even though there were frustrating times, I still giggle thinking about our wild camping trip.
