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Us three boys got out the tent, and started setting it up. John and I thought that we knew what we were doing, but it took quite a while, and a good bit of help from Linda and my mother to actually get the tent up. Once the tent was set up, we put all our sleeping bags, and clothes in the tent, and then we headed into the village to have some fun.

We got back to the campground pretty late that night, and after a campfire, and some messing around, we finally settled down for bed. I honestly think it was somewhere around 1:00 am when we finally got to sleep. I awoke sometime around 3:00 am with my face in a wet spot on my pillow. I was still kind of half asleep, and figured that I had drooled on the pillow, or that it was condensation, so I rolled over. That's when my right hand landed in a puddle inside the tent.

First off, our tent was in a low spot, which had pretty much turned into a small pond when the rain started. Then, to make matters worse, we had no rain fly, or tarp, so the rain was leaking through the roof. The seams in the tent had not been sealed, so they were leaking too, and we had 5 people in a tent that was probably big enough for 2 or 3 at most, so there were sleeping bags, pillows, and clothing bags against the fabric walls of the tent everywhere, causing more leaks.

Believe it or not, my mother still camps with us too. Over the years, we've had some other unfortunate mishaps, and odd experiences, but no matter how bad things go, we always wind up having fun in the long run! Another site you will like.

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