Claudia, Ben and Kaitlyn: Memorial Day

Every Memorial Day Ben's family goes camping at Swinging Bridge Campground and luckily we've been able to go the last 3 years. Pam (Ben's mom) always reserves 3 spots right next to each other months in advance so that we have enough room for everyone. Some of us set up our tents and stay the whole weekend and others come up to visit just for the day.

This year was a little different...

Pam reserved the spots but the camp host decided he didn't want to do his job and never put up the reserved signs for us. When we got there 2 of our spots were taken. Of course we went searching for the camp host but he was no where to be found. Ben and I ended up driving back to Eagle to print off proof that we had reserved the spots but we got back late so we decided to wait until morning to figure everything out. The first night we had 7 people and 4 dogs sleeping in 1 camper. It was... cozy. The next morning Ben and his dad went everywhere they could think of to find a camp host or ranger but there was no one and when we showed the people in our spots the proof that we had reserved the spots MONTHS ago they flat out said that they didn't care and weren't leaving... I guess I shouldn't have been shocked to encounter such rude people but I was.

The only thing we had going in our favor was that Aunt Donna and Uncle Rob weren't able to make it this time so there weren't as many of us as usual. After deciding that the other campers were a waste of time we made the best of our vacation and had a good time.