Lenny's Maiden Voyage

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We decided to take the kids and Lenny the camper to smithville lake for one night, as a sort of test run.  It was exactly like a national lampoons movie!  LOL.  

The first thing that happened was even though it was sunny and hot all day, the second we pulled into our spot it started to torrentially downpour.  Caleb mentioned "waiting it out" in the truck and Loralie started praying.  "Dear Jesus, please help it to stop raining cause we wanna go camping. Amen."  No joke, it was like someone turned off a faucet.  It was so drastic that Caleb and I burst out laughing.  The faith of children!  Thanks Jesus!
Next, we turned on the air conditioning and got showered with mouse turds that were stuffed in the ancient vents.  Yuck.

After that we got everything all set up and were trying everything out when all of a sudden Caleb yelled "turn the water off!  Turn it off!"  Apparently there is something amiss with the hot water heater.  It was flooding the camper!  Towel brigade to the rescue!
No hot showers for these happy campers.

Our fire wouldn't light, we forgot a million things, but we laughed really hard!    And the kids slept in the own beds all through the night!  Sure, they were up at the crack of dawn, but we'll call that a win!  
Brings back memories of all the disastrous Brummett family camping trips...

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