I went camping when I was in Girl Scouts. I remember being eaten by mosquitoes 🦟 and being served nasty food 🍽️ and feeling like I waited forever for it. 🕐 . This was a several day trip, it was hot, we swam in stagnant water 🌊 the campfire 🔥 had trouble starting. Yeah I was glad to get home. Good thing I never got sent to one of those summer camps 🏕️
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I’ve been camping many times including the Adventure Princesses camps with my daughter. She probably felt the same way you did, except one time it got really exciting. We saw a Taranatula Hawk, a big black wasp with red wings, landing on a Tarantula spider and stinging it. The Tarantula Hawk started dragging the tarantula and we were watching. We did not know what it was until someone looked it up. My daughter ran to get her jewelry box and she ask me to put the pair in there. Another dad said, yes I would really like to see you pick them up and put them in her box Thomas. He was laughing. I am glad I did not pick them up. Apparently the Tarantula Hawk has the most painful sting of any insect in the northern hemisphere. At least it was exciting to see.
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I went to a Girl Scout camp when I was probably eleven or twelve. I had a GREAT time- the counselors were fantastic. We hiked, swam, sang around a campfire at night. Of course we slept in cabins with screened in sides. And we worked. I set up tables and served food at breakfast. ‘
I didn’t get into tent camping until after I was married. We had some incredible adventures with tents!
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Glad to hear your experiences were better than mine in both cases. My scout camping experience wasn’t the best, but I did enjoy scouts otherwise.
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i never camped as a child but some of my favorite memories are of the camping trips we took as adults and with our own children–who also enjoyed and looked forward to camping. oceanside, mountains, lakeside–loved it all.
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Sounds like a wonderful time. I haven’t gone camping in so long but would like to give it a try again.
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