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Self-Care Activity: Camping! Part II (Murphy's Law)

When last we met, my best friend and I were headed to a campground with our 18 kids (j/k, we only have 4 between us. It just FEELS like 18 kids).

Here is what our first day was like:
- Check-in with park rangers.
- Drive past our campsite, then turn around to go back to it.
- Park and start unloading our tent
- Set up the tent (I was surprised how quickly we got it set up!)
Once that was all done, I headed into the nearest town to pick up dinner since we didn't have anything ready-made for the kids and ourselves.

While I was way, all heck broke loose. Apparently, a tree behind our campsite decided it had enough of the world's BS and decided fall. Some other trees caught it initially, but about every 30 minutes the tree limbs would shift and the tree would get closer to our campsite. The tree's current trajectory put our tent directly in its path.
A few calls to the park ranger later, he showed up to assess the situation and I returned from town just in time to see him running out of the woods behind our site yelling,"Get Back! Get back! Its coming down!" The other campground tenants jumped into action and helped us drag our tent out of the way. This was about 7 pm, and it was beginning to get dark. My friend, our kids, and I all rushed to a new campsite and started quickly setting our tent back up so we got it done before it was too dark.
We did it and finally got everyone showered and into bed (well, onto air mattress, but you know what I mean). I didn't think anything could top day one, but I was wrong :/ The next day the sky opened up and our site flooded.
We still had a great time, and we will be camping again soon! Thanks for coming back for part two of my camping saga :)

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