Happy Campers?

This past weekend, Matt and I went camping with our dear friends, B + P & W + A, at Graveyard Fields off the Blue Ridge Parkway! We had a GREAT time {at the beginning anyway}!

When we first arrived, we immediately set up camp…

Home Sweet Home!

Then we hiked the 4 mile Graveyard Fields Loop.

Later the guys chopped firewood…

And we all drank out of really cool cups!

But THEN…out of NOWHERE…

 a STORM started rolling in!

So we quickly changed into our rain gear…

and made dinner in a haste! And by “dinner,” I mean that we only had time to throw two hot dogs and three small pizzas on the grill, which later tasted like rain.

Pita Pizzas & Hotdogs! Yum!

  But within an hour of the first drop we became prisoners of Mother Nature in our tents…  

Within two hours, we were floating in nearly 4 inches of water... 

Matt braved the storm, patching our rain fly…while Charlie and I took a little nap.

 After four and a half hours, we called it quits and became prisoners of our car. And it doesn’t end there…the storm left behind a dense fog that prevented us from leaving Graveyard Fields until 6 a.m.  Have you ever tried to sleep in a car seat while your clothes are still wet?  {We did, not awesome}.  Although terrible at the time, we joked about it during our drive home.

Lesson learned. 

A 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms? Not worth the risk.