Beth and I went camping last weekend over the Memorial Day holiday, and it just didn't work out. We no longer have a vehicle that is capable of pulling our camper (see 11-16-2003) since we never got the truck we were planning on getting this spring. Anyway, because of that, we got a friend to pull the camper up to Potato Creek State Park for us, but Friday evening got here and he had never shown up. So, we were hoping for the phone call from someone asking where we were. It finally came..."Hey, when are you guys getting here?" "Terry's supposed to pull our camper for us." "But Terry's here!" So I don't know what happened there. Anyway, Jack had to run home for something so he brought someone else and brought us his Expedition so we could pull the camper up ourselves with that. We got to the park at about 9 or 10, busied ourselves with setting up the camper, Alex (who had slept the way up) woke up and was very upset, it's cold, and I can't get the heater in the camper to work because as it turns out we are out of propane. I never checked it. So we unhooked a tank and went looking for somewhere to get it filled (nowhere); failing that since it was way too cold to stay in the camper with no heat, we went home for the night. Saturday I got the tanks filled and we made it back up there by about 11 am. The heater worked, but it took all day to get the hot water heater running. Fortunately one of the guys camping with us is an appliance repairman so he adjusted the pilot settings and got it fired up. The overnight stay was pleasant enough. Sunday, however, was not so good. A whole group of us went geocaching in the morning, intending to seek out several caches, but as we found the first one (which involved a lot of bushwacking we wouldn't have needed to do if we'd had a trail map) the sky opened up and it started raining. Hard. It proceeded to rain most of the day. The awning of the camper, of course, broke. A bracket pulled right off the wall of the camper. So the awning was put up to prevent further damage. Everything we had with us was inside to keep it dry. We're all inside, with a squirmy kid who hates being cooped up, and it's raining so hard we can't have any windows or vent open or we get soaked. The bed got wet because a window wasn't shut tight. The camper kept getting smaller and smaller. Alex's 2-year molars are coming in so he's not feeling good. We made a trip to the mall in Mishawaka just to get out of the camper. The forecast was for more and more rain...so by about 6 pm we hooked up and left. And drove through a horrible thunder and lightning storm all the way home. So, we camped 1 night of the 3 we paid for, spent all that money on groceries for camping, and it took $48.04 to refill the Expedition with gas. Camping this year was a bust.