Break out the s’mores baby, it’s camping time!
Last night after dinner we decided to set up the new tent and check it out. It was so easy to put up . . . put the blue poles in the blue holders and the beige poles in the beige holders and presto . . . you have a tent! Well in all honesty there’s a little more to it than that but it is really easy to set up and take down. There are several pictures so I am loading small ones. Just click on them for a larger view. 
Just look at how huge it
is! It will be a very nice size for us as we have a queen size air mattress and we’ll be able to stow our gear in it. Those things sticking out of the sides are closets. They have 2 shelves that you can hang in them for light items and you can zip them closed.
Here is a closeup of one of the closets. I love the fact that you can stow stuff away and not have to look at it. And the other picture is me standing in the middle of the tent. It’s 7 feet high so I can stand in it no problem. I think that’s my husband’s favorite feature. No getting dressed hunched over. There seems to be lots of air flow through the tent so it shouldn’t get stiffling hot like other tents I’ve camped in. The top is mostly just screens so you can look up at the stars at night. Even when you put the rain fly on there is some clear plastic so you can still see the stars. They thought of everything! 
We are hoping to try it out next month by visiting my mother-in-law. Her and her husband have a trailer on a lake and we can set up the tent right next to the trailer. It will be a nice dry run before we go on our first real camping trip. My hubby just made reservations at Muskallonge Lake State Park which is in the Upper Pennisula of Michigan. We’re going Labor Day weekend. I can’t wait! I’ve already started a list of stuff we need. 
Not much knitting news, I finished up a dishcloth I had been working on and that’s it. We’re going shopping tonight (for what else, camping gear!) and I hope to have some time tonight to work on Clappy. I think it’s feeling neglected. Poor thing! I guess I should give it some love.
