camping

we're camping this weekend. you might ask, "why the hell would you do something like that? what are you thinking?" well, we made the plans in August, when we had hoped that the weather would even out instead of being unseasonable cold. but if you look at the right side of my screen, you'll see that weather bug. and you'll see that it is indeed unseasonable cold. but we already paid for our spots. and being out of work, losing that money would be bad. although it's already spent. i think we've wasted more than that in bad groceries.

anyway, i'm curious about camping in cold weather. according to The Weather Channel, the high friday is going to be 44 with a low of 34. the high saturday is going to 47 with a low of 33. According to NOAA, it's going to be a high of 45 on friday, low 32, high of 46 on saturday, low of 31. there is also rain/snow slated for friday. sigh. since we have never camped in this late in the season, we don't really have any cold weather camping gear. we have a typical tent with a rain fly, but it's made of ordinary ripstop fabric. the one really good camping bag i have is rated for a low of 40 degrees. we do, however, have a ton of blankets, several layers of clothes and body heat. i'm just worried about what we're going to do during the day. i don't know how cold it'll be to sit around and chat. and i don't want to sit in our tents, shivering all day. i looked up some things to do that will be inside, so hopefully we'll stay warm and together.

just pray it doesn't rain.