Houston.... We have a PROBLEM!

After we had been in school for a week or two, Bryce and Andrea, a couple we are good friends with decided we NEEDED to go camping before the weather got too cold. So, we packed up all our stuff and off we went to a camping site near a natural hot spring. We were all SUPER excited! By the time we got to our campsite, it was DARK. We had decided to only bring one tent, because we knew it would not be light and we didn't want to set up TWO tents in the dark. so..... we brought Bryce and Andrea's tent. Then and layed it out.

After laying out the tent.... we realized we had a problem..... NO TENT POLES!!! Andrea's Mom had given them the tent and apparently, they forgot to put the poles back in the bag, so the poles were still in Washington state. Yep, there was not one single pole for ths tent ANYWHERE. So..... Tyler and Bryce went to work on a solution. There were trees all around our site and we had Bryce's truck. None of which was helpful without rope or twine or SOMETHING that could hold our tent up. Bryce went and asked the neighbors and they had string/twine and were willing to let us borrow it.

We ended up stringing the twine across 2 TREES, tying it to Bryce's CAR and using wood and an AX to make stakes to keep the tent up. They men did a great job! I think the tent looks pretty good for what we had. No bears attacked us during the night and the tent did not fall in on us! :)

Below are a few shots after we woke up in the morning.

When we woke up, we ate cereal, then headed to the hot spring! It was lots of fun, but we didn't want to get our cameras wet, so no pictures..... sorry!

After the Granite Hot Spring we went to a beautiful waterfall and took pictures. We had lots of fun climbing the rocks and going in the canyon.

Tyler and Bryce climbed up to the top of a ledge.