What is suburban camping you ask? Let me tell you.
Suburban Camping is sleeping three in a bed with the windows open. It's showering by candlelight with and tying your wet hair up into a pony tail.
When you're suburban camping, you charge your phone in your car and use a lighter to ignite the stove so your water can boil for coffee. The kids get fruit that doesn't need to be refrigerated, cereal bars and juice boxes for breakfast.
To keep away the boredom you go on excursions. Fast food and ice cream for dinner, the farmer's market, out to lunch and even a trip to the zoo after naps.
You never know how long your suburban camping experience will last - an hour? a few days? - and you don't choose the dates of your camping experience.
Suburban Camping is what happens when a big storm blows through and takes your power lines with it.
Ellie kept asking how long it was going to take to repair the 'power plant'. Ryan and I kept reassuring her that they were working as fast as they could to fix it. Finally she asked, "What does the power plant look like?"
I replied that I thought it looked like a big factory or warehouse.
"Oh."
Then I got it. "Ellie, what did you think the Power Plant looked like?"
"You know, maybe like a cactus or somethin'."
Suburban Camping was a blast.
oh how i love the things that little minds come up with!! a cactus?? that is hysterical :) hannah made a comment the other day when austin was reading off their multivitamin ingredients and came to beeswax. she looked at us funny and asked how in the world they put THAT in their vitamins. austin said, "you don't even know what that is". and she replied, "yes i do. it means 'business'. you know...like in 'none of your beezwax'!!!" i love kids :)
ReplyDeletewe've had to do some suburban camping in our time. especially since moving out to the farm (so would it be farm camping then??) where the power goes out if the wind blows more than 1 mph. it's fun for a bit...but after that you start to miss things like flushing the toilet. hope you guys get your power back (which i'm thinking might have happened unless your on the internet via lots of tin foil, a generator, and some copper wiring!) soon.
I love it...a cacuts! You need shirts "we survived suburban camping"! ;) At least you were able to enjoy a few drink and a good dinner on Saturday night!
ReplyDeleteHow I love that child!!
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