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My best friend convinced my daughter to come anyhow. Even if it meant she couldn’t climb the mountains in the desert around our campsite that she looks forward to every year. We brought camping chairs and told her that she can sit and use her tablet, the same as she would at home, if she wanted to, and so we basically convinced her.
Other than one thing.
She took a shower and despite wrapping it (not a good enough job) her cast got wet and it didn’t dry, so it ended up coming off and she was using an ace bandage instead. She said that she wouldn’t come camping unless we got a cast back on, so we went off to urgent care and waited hours for them to put on a new cast, before we went off on our camping trip. This meant that we only arrived at the place once it was good and dark, so I don’t have pictures from at night.
We made a fire with charcoal to cook up hot dogs and kebabs, zucchini and potatoes, as well as marshmallows.
We then made a bonfire with wooden logs, enjoyed some alcoholic cider for the adults and fake beer for the children, and enjoyed each other’s company, looking at the stars, the main reason for our trip to the desert.
It is gorgeous over there; with no light polution you can see everything, including the Milky Way, and the reason for our camping then is that it is during the Perseids meteor shower. Unfortunately, the kids were camping with my mom during the peak so we were unable to go to the desert then, and since we weren’t at the peak, we didn’t see any shooting stars, but that’s ok.
It was already late by the time we put up our tents, made harder by the fact that two of the tents were broken, even though they were brand new. I bought tents on sale from a cheap website and learned my lesson. We got splinters from the plastic of the poles… And one tent, once we put it together, ended up being small, and my kid refused to sleep in it. So we put together three tents, two were used, and I slept outside under the stars.
I decided that for next year, I will be investing in better tents. There’s no point in getting cheaper tents if they break. I’ll buy ones that are known to be good ones, and most likely pop up tents, since those are my few ones that didn’t break, and it’s much easier for me to put them together.
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Penny Price
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