Neither me nor my best friend Jenny are the outdoorsy types so people who knew us were surprised when we decided to go on a camping trip. We borrowed my mothers ancient set of camping gear and threw it into the car the morning we had decided to go.
We didn’t think to check the equipment before we left as we were concerned about how we were going to fit it all into the car. When we arrived at the campsite we got out the tent and started to set up the tent. Over the next hour and twenty minutes we fought with that tent. The poles were easy to assemble but hard to put into the slots on the tent.
In our anxiety we even managed to break one of the poles. Luckily Jenny’s dad had thrown some duct tape in the car. Unluckily we didn’t have anything to cut it with. Although for future reference you can chew duct tape off the role. Finally to our amazing relief a family walked past us and stopped saying they had just been to the lake for an hour and had seen us struggling on our way. There ten and twelve year old kids helped up put our tent up.
