It was a horrible........

Weekend!  Yep, that doesn't come out of my mouth that often!  Our first camping experience of the year, and it couldn't have been any worse then it was.  First of all, my husband surprising had to get the NH3 on the rest of the crops, so that cut into our weekend.  We generally park our camper down to the lake, but we had some conflicts at the beginning of the spring that lead us to make different arrangements for Fathers Day Weekend.  We wanted to use the camper so bad we just decided to stay close to home and camp at the Ionia State Park.  I booked it a long time ago, and my dad {who came with us} had a site next to us.  Dusty took us and the camper up to the campground around noon because we knew he had to leave.  But as soon as we got there, we forgot that last year we had a small fire which burnt our electrical cord.  We did get a new cord but we forgot to purchase a new breaker.  So we pile in the vehicle to drive around to 3 stores in Ionia to find one. Finally Dusty was off to the farm leaving us with some nice air conditioning {remember how hot it was}........When I thought it was going ok, Maddie becomes fussy.  I thought it was because of the heat {she loves playing outside and loves camping}, nope.  I had forgotten  that she had her 1 year shots on Monday.  The Dr. had said that she could get a fever with the chicken pox vaccine, but not until 4 - 7 days later. I completely forgotten about it but that is what she had, a fever!  So we spent the entire day sitting inside the camper with a/c, poor Maddie.

Saturday didn't start out any better.  Dusty got up and left, saying he was supposed to be back by noon......4 pm later.  I was preparing dinner when our fridge was beeping a weird noise.  Needless to say, two hours later we found our the converter box went bad.  We had no power, nothing.  In the meantime, my dad was trying to help when he discovered 2 mice in our camper......YUCK.  They were down below were they couldn't actually get into our camper but still I was in total disgust.  We had nothing else to do but to pack up and leave.  So I got everything ready when we discovered something else bad.  We had no power to get our slide-out in!!!!  Oh no is right.  I had to pile everything from the fridge, our clothes, dirty dishes in my car to take home because I had no idea when I would see my camper again, lol.  We got home about 10 pm Saturday night.  My dad had called a bit later to tell us a nice man stopped and told my dad that he had a lot of experience with campers and that he would come back in the a.m. to help.  So Fathers Day morning, instead of making my hubby a nice breakfast, he was up and gone by 7 a.m. to help save the day.  I spent the morning on the phone canceling our week camping trip up north to the bridge {we were supposed to leave this Sunday} :-(.  I had no idea when, how much or how long it would take for our camper to be fixed--I had no choice but to cancel it in order for me to get our full refund.

Monday comes along, my hubby takes it in, it's fixed in 2 hours!  Bummed we are not going to the UP camping,  but now the family lake conflict has been resolved so I guess we are taking it down there for next week {or the rest of the summer}.

Phewwww, glad that is over!  This girl can't take another one of those weekends soon.