Tuesday, October 4, 2011Good morning crew,
I should have known the camping trip wasn't going to work out because I spent so much time planning it. All the work that went into it and naturally, for the entire week prior, I watched the weather forecast deteriorate.
But just to guarantee that I was going to get caught, the forecast didn't get so bad that I was forced to abandon the plans. No, they only predicted a 40 percent chance of scattered thunderstorms. Just enough margin of error to make me press my luck.
As we drove up the girlfriend and I could see the slate gray clouds accumulating directly ahead of us. We actually drove through the first of the thunderstorms and thought we had lucked out when we arrived at the campsite after the rain had stopped.
We set up the tent on the soggy grass and got a good fire going.
I threw a couple of steaks and a half dozen shrimp-ka-bobs on the grill while the girlfriend busied herself with a bottle of wine. We cooked and drank with one anxious eye on the thick clouds still rolling overhead. We kept getting drops, but were able to finish cooking without getting soaked.
Almost as if it were waiting for us, as soon as we finished eating the rain started coming down again. No hanging out around the camp fire, no making s'mores. Nope, it was in the tent and zipped up shortly after eight o'clock.
And just to make sure we didn't get any real sleep the temperature dropped down to 45 degrees that night, which would have made much less difference if we had sleeping bags.
Laugh it up,
Joe
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