UNDER ATTACK! THE BATTLE OF CAMPSITE 415!

READY FOR BED ON NIGHT #1

We pull into the campsite at around 10:00pm and it's already dark. We try to strategically position the vehicles to light the area where I have to set the tent and then they start to come...the BUGS. Now I don't mind bugs, except mosquitoes. And there, in the headlights, are the scout mosquitoes or maybe the ones most hungry for blood! Little vampires. I know as soon as I get out of the car they will decend upon me but the tent must get set-up! I leap from he car and realize I am half walking and half jogging to get things unloaded from the trunk and to get to the tent. What's dumb about that is that no matter where you go, there is a swarm of little bloodsuckers waiting to attack.

So there I am swatting and shooing mosquitoes trying to set up the tent while my wife and kids watch in amusement from the car. I no sooner get the tent out of the bag and it starts to rain. Not a heavy rain, just enough to know mother nature is up there taking a leak right on me. There was no call for any rain in the forecast so I guess mother nature had one too many rum coolers and couldn't contain herself. So now I am racing to set-up the tent, in the light of the headlights, and being eaten ALIVE! Thankfully my wife joins me to help finish the set-up, but I am still unclear if that is because she loves me so dearly as to sacrifice her body and blood to the mosquitoes to help me, or if it was the kids that drove her from the car. Yeah, they can be that naughty! With her help we get the tent set-up and I start bombing the gear inside the tent. The whole process took about an hour and the kids are going totally bonkers from boredom and lack of sleep. I decide that we should just get ready for bed and crash. The battle for site 415 was over. Many mosquitoes lost their lives and two Canadians were badly wounded .