Pretend Camping

Here is today's forecast: "Rain. The rain could be heavy at times. High near 55. Light east wind. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible."

Scott is running the Presidential Range Relay Race today. He will run between 5-10 miles of a relay across a mountain range with a few other MIT students. In the rain.

Last night Scott camped with his team and a bunch of others. Bruce and I were going to go, but bagged once we saw how awful the weather was going to be. We'd been looking forward to this trip for a few weeks, so Bruce was disappointed that we didn't end up going camping.

So we went "pretend camping." We set up a tent in our living room, put out our sleeping pads, and laid out our sleeping bags. We ate popcorn, pretzels, and M&Ms while watching Ralph S. Mouse, a library video about a book we read a few weeks ago. We usually don't do that while camping, but we had to compensate for not having a campfire somehow. After the movie, we read a book with a flashlight and then finally went to sleep.

Bruce got up at 5:12 a.m. He asked me to tickle him every five minutes for the next hour, then we got up and made french toast. I just checked the weather to see what Scott is running in, and now I'm heading for a hot shower. I do like camping, but "pretend camping" is pretty fun too.