Failed camping attempt

Last night Darly wanted to camp in our backyard. She didn't care that it had been raining since 2pm. She just wanted to camp. So get gets a tent out of the basement and takes it out back to try to set it up.

After realizing that she cannot set it up herself, she requests my help.

I take one look at her camping location (btw: all she had managed to do with the tent was get it out of the box, and put the tent poles through the top!) that she was downhill in the yard. If we got any more rain (which we did) she would have water hopefully running under her and not through the tent. I suggested she try a spot on higher ground.

I should mention here that my entire back yard slopes to the south. There's a flatish area from the back door where they put in a retaining wall to give us someplace to enjoy the yard.

So we move the tent to the flatish area in the yard and get it set up. Darly crawls in and we decide that since it smells that we should try airing it out a bit. Darly then comes in the house and plays for quite a bit.

DH comes home and she announces to him that since she is camping in the back yard that he needs to turn off the sprinklers...RIGHT NOW! So since she has him wrapped around her little finger they go off and do that. DH surveys the camping area and announces that he does not feel as if she'll actually make it out there the entire night. I agree but I figure it couldn't hurt for her to try.

We have dinner and watch TV while Darly plays and wait for the camping to begin.

Eventually Darly dresses for bed in her winter pajamas because since we had so much rain it is quite chilly outside.

I'm not sure when she decided that she wasn't going to bother camping, but she never did put her sleeping bag in the tent and she never went back outside after dark.

Instead she slept in her nice warm & dry bed upstairs. She didn't wake up until the guy from Qwest showed up to fix my DSL. Which is working awesomely now! YAY!