This weekend was Pirate Adventure Weekend at MDRF. Wet was the condition of the weekend. Bullets to follow…

* We arrived at the KOA on Friday in enough time to set up the tent in dry and sunlit conditions
* The pot-luck dinner was great. The chickens turned out very good and everything else was fantastic to boot.
* The rain that followed was not so fantastic. We discovered that our tent needs to be re-waterproofed, so there was lots of Chinese Water Torture courtesy of Mother Nature
* Saturday morning, we re-pitched the common fly, which had collapsed after the wet ground lost its grip on the stakes
* Saturday at MDRF was lots of rain, lots of mud, and lots of fun! So much fun, in fact, that I’ll have to come back and fill in how much fun it was once I remember
* Saturday, after faire, we came back and I threw all the bedding into the dryers.
* Dinner was KFC (nomme, nomme), and then there was lots of reminiscing about previous Encampments. We (sort of) concluded that we need to keep a Crew memory book, just to remember the funny things that are said and done at these events.
* Sunday was more rain and more mud. There was a huge turnout at MDRF despite the rain and the mud. A few people engaged in mud-bathing, including two pre-school age girls who were covered head-to-toe in mud, and having a great time, to boot!
* Sunday night was a quiet campers-only evening, with everyone sitting around the campfire (there was no rain!) making smores and drinking ciders.
* We managed to kill a pie iron by leaving it in the fire a bit too long (it was aluminum, and all that’s left are two very sad headless metal sticks)
* We got home on Monday to a basement full of water. It seems that the sump pump stopped working, and the water alarm never alerted ADT.
* A bright spot at the end of a damp weekend was that Ms. Athena (the puppy) got straight “A”s on her Kennel Report Card – apparently she had a great time while she was there!

I have posted all of the pictures I took to my Flickr Photostream