Reservation for flushing toilets please

Going camping this weekend with my Sunday School kids. I’m not much for camping (my idea of “roughing it” is Holiday Inn without a pool) but we kinda got this down to a science. We leave at noon Saturday and return Sunday afternoon. Twenty-four hours at a state park (which have flushing toilets or I wouldn’t consider going). Each adult (usually 1 adult per 5 kids) is responsible to making one meal. Adults all sleep in a pop-up (or I wouldn’t consider going) and the kids are in tents around us (girls on the left, boys on the right).

We have devised the 1 adult to 5 children rule after realizing you really don’t get to sleep that night. Every 1.5 hours someone will have to “go potty” which is usually a short hike thru darkened woods surrounded by creepy stuff. This requires an adult chaperone. Every 2 hours someone can’t sleep (because its too dark, too light, too quiet, too loud, too creepy, etc.) and wants to go home (remember, they are only 8-12 years old). Every three hours, someone is trying to sneak out of the tent to pull a prank on another tent full of children. Add to this mix the snoring of men from the pop-up, raccoons destroying our camp site and for some reason it always rains on these semi-annual trips. Go figure…

You wouldn’t think it but I’m actually looking forward to it (as long as there are flushing toilets).