Canoe Rental

During a canoe trip in the past few years, I realized that there is a need for this item. A group of my friends got together and went down to life sentence for a canoe trip of two days. It looked much at first, pay $ 110 per person, bring your tent and whatever you want to drink, and we have a couple of small additional tents if anybody needs a place to sleep. For $ 110, it included the canoe rentals, camping, and all foods not need to shop for groceries. Sounded easy enough, thank you God, old habits are hard to break as I always brought my little tent and his own expenses and of course could not resist the sale on Pringles and Little Debbies, when I was in store.

It was hotter than blazes and should be in the top 90 all weekend, in Nice on the river, but not so pleasant in a tent. Anyway, the first night was set up tents, (none of the extras available or planned, God thank you, I had my own). Then it was time for adults to catch dinner while the teenagers, children and dogs went to the river to swim, (and get eaten by mosquitoes).

So I asked, "What do we eat?" To which the response was "Spaghetti". Now, I think and then I said, "I never had spaghetti in a camping trip before", thinking she had a secret way to do it on the fire. Well, it did not. His plan was that she had a huge pot of boiling water and a couple of pans to the hamburger / canned sauce in. Unfortunately, it is difficult to reconcile a large pot of boiling water on a round timber that is in flames (because it did not put any type of grid to put it). So I practiced the historical triangle of flaming logs turn, she set up and stayed behind. He did a great job but just barely. Anywho .... never make spaghetti on a camping trip, especially when you have forgotten to bring plates and forks.

Lunch the next day on the float was sandwiches. I still had Pringles and Little Debbie's in my bag. Of course, after the previous nights fiasco with the spaghetti I had wisely hidden in the tent for some more later. Good thing too, because after the floating river canoe, dinner was to find a stick and hot dogs and sausages grilled over the fire. Now this is more like it camping. However, when adolescents are involved, is something that really needs to be thought through, because teenagers can be so inconsiderate most of the time. Guess what? Teens can eat hot dogs or bratwurst 5-8 each, and not care if it is for adults, which is what they did.

So dinner for adults should be smores, as we had two boxes of graham crackers and chocolate and marshmallows did not melt in the heat. Well, we thought we had two boxes. However, adolescents had consumed one box while they were waiting for spaghetti to get done the night before, because "we are hungry". I was too, I could not wait to get into my tent and have the usual Pringles and Little Debbies for dinner.

The moral of this story is sure to take your own equipment and food when you go on a canoe or camping.