Camping Adventures

Chance has not commented on how his canoe trip went, or how he feels about hearing under water.  He will though, he will.

We went camping and did not have access to technology.  It was rather nice actually. It was us, the trees, the lake, a tent, and the squirrel that kept running over to our fire pit and trying to steal any food that may have been left there.  He was a professional food stealer that Squirrel. He ran into camp while we were all sitting there, his little body like a pint size torpedo.  Then he would jump into our fire pit(we never actually used that fire pit as we joined family at theirs at the camp spot next door), poke his head up and look at us all, and then dash back into the trees. It was a delightful little ritual.

Chance slept with his cousin in a tent.  They claimed to have stayed up until 4:00 a.m.  Chance was a little cranky the next day, so he may have stayed up practically all night.  Many members of the extended family got to see what it is like to wake Chance up in the morning.  Chance's reaction was a little more severe than normal, as his brother decided to help wake him up with a little water. All of the kids had a meal they were supposed to help prepare, and Chance had breakfast that morning so his brother was waking him up to come help at camp.

Brother's don't like it when wake them up with water whether they can hear or not.  Our whole extended family heard Chance yelling at his brother to stop and giving him a piece of his mind.  Heck,  the campsites on either side of us may have heard him.  Later, Chance told us he had no idea how loud he had been.

We know.  When Chance can not hear himself,  he can be loud.

I think we all took away from this episode, that no one really likes to be woken up with water. To Chance's credit, when he crawled into the family tent the next morning with a cup of water to get revenge, he stopped when his brother, all curled up in his sleeping bag, asked him to stop and didn't even sprinkle a drop of water on him.