Tent Testing

On the last weekend in July, Matthew and I joined Lehi (the other Canadian in town) and his family on a camping trip. An interesting fact - Matthew and I met last year while camping, also on the very last weekend in July. It was a funny coincidence that this invitation just happened to be on the same date.

Anyhow, I'm not sure what most people think when they think of camping, but I wasn't expecting what we got. We went to Puli (in the mountains) and drove up a small mountain where we would be camping. It was pretty fancy. We had toilets, showers (maybe normal for a camp ground), but we also had electricity, running water, etc. Matthew and I have a small two person tent and this was the first time we got to test it out. Even though it was pretty cold that night, inside the tent was hot. We had bought our camping gear according to how big it is when it is packed because we need it to fit on the motorcycle. So, we bought sheets instead of sleeping bags, and we don't have any pillows, etc. Even though our sheets are as thin as most peoples' curtains, I was dying in there from overheating. I slept pretty well considering.

Either way it was pretty fun and at least we know the tent works. It was so quick to set up and take down. You forget how relieving something as small as that is until we watched the other couple who has their family sized tent; and just how long and complicated that process can be. By the time ours was packed that had only managed to take the fly off and was just starting to pull out the poles. Monica (Lehi's wife) couldn't believe we were already done. Then we were off to get home.

It was a fun trip, and here's a picture of the us on the camping trip. It's a much smaller group as the other couple only brought two of their six children along for the trip.
At the same location as where we were camping, you can also go hang-gliding. That's what the windsock is there for in the background.