This is the first year in 4-5 years that my group of friends has NOT went camping!  It seems strange but it’s for a great reason.  One of my friends (Mary) son’s (her oldest son) was getting released today – you will have to read her blog to find out what was going on.  So it’s exciting that he is coming home today (they got to pick him up at 9:30AM).  Although I miss the camping experience of this weekend – there’s just something about the Memorial Day Weekend camping trips   We always had exciting, adventurous, interesting trips

Like the year the guys were being totally annoying and throwing marshmallows at the tent (the sound they make hitting the tent gets ANNOYING and OLD real fast!). 

Or the year that it was SO cold we could see our breath in the tent & all us girls had to spoon together for warmth while the guys slept in the camper (now that just goes to show that WOMAN RULE & can handle extreme things! LOL). 

Or the year that we were in a place that had no bathrooms so we had to make our own (I’ll spare you the details on that one!).  It was the same year that it was in like the 80’s maybe even low 90’s (and on Memorial Weekend when it’s usually chilly!) and we weren’t anywhere near the vacinity of a lake or somewhere to cool off.  And if all that wasn’t interesting enough, it was the same year that our tents and campers became Tic infested!  But aside from all that, just being with friends around a campfire was the bomb!  It was still fun!  Sure we complained alot about the heat and the tics but we made it fun!  We checked each other frequently to make sure no tics were burrowing down into our skin.  We cut the trip short by one day and vowed to never camp out in the middle of nowhere again but it was by far the most memorable Memorial Weekend camping trip EVER! 

And there’s always next year!