The One with Campfire!

I almost forgot to include these stories from camp!

Thursday afternoon when it started to get stormy Shelyse and I were at our site warming garlic bread for dinner that night.  The storm came up so suddenly it started blowing our 5 star camp apart.  We'd never staked the canopy over the hammock down so we could move it for optimal shade.  This was a bad idea and it was lifted right up and into some trees!  We couldn't get it down ourselves so Shelyse ran for help and I tried to prevent further major damage.  While she ran to the pavilion, I ran to the fire to put chairs away.  I was too slow though and had a perfect view of the "pharoah chair" falling into the fire!!  Remember this thing?

Umm yeah, it no longer has an awning.  It melted.  The worst part is for some reason there was a balloon in the chair, which got trapped by the awning when it blew over into the fire.  As I ran to try to save the chair the balloon popped from the heat and scorching plastic landed on my legs and feet!  Thank heavens it was a small balloon!  The storm was a blessing in disguise as we packed up most of our camp that afternoon and saved ourselves some time the next day.

Way back when we were still making blankets, Gabby and Ryann discovered that when you throw a ball of yarn, it unwinds.  Much like toilet paper.  See where I'm going with this?  They invented "yarning," the much kinder and more attractive version of the TP prank.  I told them they could prank all week if they wanted as long as it was never malicious.  They brought so many supplies but didn't use them until the last night.  They "yarned" the pavilion, which I thought actually looked really cute.  Somebody else must have disagreed however because this is what we woke up to the next day:
 

They also made the mistake of tying our leader tent's zipper shut with the yarn.  Initially I thought it was our own girls so I returned the favor and both of their tents looked like this:

Now that's how you lock someone in a tent!  The dual tie technique.  Seriously, the girls couldn't get out on their own and had to convince me they didn't prank my tent before I let them out.  I think I forgot to mention that I realized our own tent was tied shut when I woke up early to go to the bathroom.  I was not happy.  Thankfully I had my pocket knife with me and it was just yarn so I got out quickly.

However, if it had been my girls who'd tied the zipper pulls together they were sitting ducks in their own tents waiting for this!!

I was prepared.  And lesson learned- don't mess with Texas!!  Or Cindy Cooper.