The Gabeharts: Camping

Jaydn has been 'bugging' us to go camping for a very long time. And for two people that love that outdoors, we have yet to do this. Kansas camping is not at all like Idaho camping, way to hot here. So we finally decided that we would set the tent up and give it a shot. I checked what the weather was suppose to do for that Friday at the begining of the week and it was suppose to be good. We had an event to go to that evening so before we left, i checked the weather again,granted we already had the tent up so it was going to happen. The weather said we were suppose to have scattered thunderstorms. We went to our event and came back around 10 and the weather then said a LARGE thunderstorm was coming but not until around 4 am.

Wouldn't it be our luck that as soon as we went to bed, the lightening started. Luckily jaydn was exhausted and feel asleep pretty quickly. Robby started snoring about the time that Jaydn started twitching, but poor mom was wide awake with no chance of going to sleep. For those that have never experienced a midwestern thunderstorm, HOLY COW! The storm was very large and even scared me. Jaydn surprised me and slept through about an hour of it....until a huge bolt of lightening struck somewhere very close.

At this point I put her next to me. We asked if she could hold on until the rain calmed down and she said that she would try. We waited about 15 minutes and I noticed that she was shaking and about 5 minutes after that, she had gotten sick from her nerves. I took Jaydn in and she slept in bed with me, although the storm had past by the time we had gotten into bed. Robby said he would come in and he did, 9 am the next morning! Maybe we will be able to try again before Robby leaves.