We are back from a camping trip to Spring Mill State Park, one that started badly and ended badly, but everything in the middle was great. We left town Wednesday by around noon, after exhaustive preparations consisting of nothing at all, but we managed to get everything into the back of the truck and not even have to open up the camper at all. And we only had to stop to buy something we forgot...all our pots and pans...once. We got there around dinnertime, and it was wet, gray, humid, and a bit drizzly. And the campsite we got was not level. Well, not level we can deal with, but this site was so not level that we used up all our firewood (scrap lumber) trying to level the camper. We had a layer of 2x4s and 6 boards under one wheel, and a stack of 2x4s six high under the tongue and still couldn't get it level, and we were already afraid of it rolling all downhill during the night, so were we able to switch sites. At the new one the camper was leveled by the simple act of unhitching it. Anyway, we were late for dinner because it took so long to set up so we ate at a pizza place. By bedtime, all the windows were open because it was so muggy and stuffy, except for the roof vent and in the beds because it drizzled some. But Thursday morning, the sky was crystal clear and it was sunny and 72, and it was like that until Saturday evening. We spent a lot of time at the pool at the campground, which was VERY nice, better than a muddy lake with a gravel beach. We visited to pioneer village (didn't spend as much time as I would have liked), toured Bluespring Caverns, went on a hayride, I did some geocaching, went to the pool, we had some great camp food (tinfoil dinners...mmm,mnmm), spent half a day at a water park in French Lick, went to the pool...THEN, after the campfire pizzas and hot dogs, it suddenly clouded up. We started putting some things away in the truck (the bikes, firewood etc) but as distant thunder started, we thought maybe we should pack up and head home early. Then the thunder got closer, fast, and we put the kids in the truck and started just throwing things anywhere they would fit and trying to get it all packed up as fast as possible. We were about halfway there when the rain started...HARD. And the lightning and thunder got REALLY CLOSE. And the wind came up awfully hard and blew the awning up over the top of the camper. And the camper wasn't even halfway down, but past the point where we could just stop. Beth and I were frantically trying to get everything packed and closed when the lightning was actually in the park and we had to jump in the truck (with two terrified kids) and wait for a bit while it poured buckets on our half-put-down camper. When the lightning slowed down we managed to get everything packed and closed up, even the awning, but we were both drenched to the bone and so was the camper, at least as far as we could tell. We did get everything packed except a small cooler that we could find no room for. And we hitched up with some assistance from our neighbor (he shone his headlights towards us) and hit the road by around 9:30, home by 2:00 am. I spent the morning getting the camper opened back up and unpacked, luckily it's mostly sunny and warm so things are laying out in the sun. The camper interior is pretty dry now, it didn't get as wet as I'd feared; mostly it was the cushions that got wet. Those are drying out pretty well. Overall, however, this was an awesome camping trip.