We were up for a family adventure a week ago (yes, as if moving 12 hours half-way across the country wasn't enough for us) and decided to drive another 5.5 hours to the Outer Banks to try our hand at beach camping. You will note that we have ZERO pictures of us actually on the beach, which I swear is just over the hill behind us. In two words that sums up our experience: we survived. We laughed (but really, what was the option? Freak out? Tear my hair out? Turn around and go home?) a lot. A few learnings we gleaned from this adventure. You can read between the lines...
1. Get to your campsite during daylight hours.
2. Make sure you do a trial run of your friend's borrowed tent.
3. Put up said tent when it is dry.
4. Check the weather forecast before you leave.
5. Actually, cancel any camping trips that forecast even slight chance of rain and head for the hotel.
6. Do not think that under any circumstance that it will work to sleep in car in rain with kids.
7. Make sure you have no less than a small country's stash of pacifiers for toddler child that is freaked out by tent's shadows at night in thunderstorm with wind howling.
8. Be one with dirt.
9. And mud.
10. And sand.
11. And bugs.
12. Love the quiet moments of digging in the sand, looking for shells, and eating ice cream watching the sunset.
13. Breathe deeply. Life is good. Really good.
Making memories...isn't that what life is all about?
We got our fill with this one!
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