When the Campgrounds are Full

I love camping. Bryan does it to appease me. Our friend Kyle loves camping. Meredith had never been. Even after Saturday night, she still really hasn't. We had a plan to go to Starved Rock State Park over Labor Day weekend but so did a lot of other people. Enough, in fact, to fill the campground. And every other campground we tried too. So, we did what all people should do in this situation and we set up camp in our backyard. We had a fire, brats, s'mores, a night hike, and slept in a tent. We had a good time and I'm sure the neighbors were entertained. Especially since they moved in that day. That's right! On their first night in their new house, their neighbors were camping...in their yard. It's okay. We're cool like that. And here is the proof.


This is the tent all set up.

On our night hike we found a playground...that closed at dusk. It was an "attractive nuisance" as Bryan called it. It's lawyer talk for "It looked too fun to leave alone".

This was where it all went down. A good game of Truth or Dare. Or Truth or Truth.

It started raining in middle of the night so we carefully draped the rain cover over the tent. My dad would be appalled but it worked like a charm.

Fun times were had by all!