For what seems like a whole week now we have had rain. I know we need the rain but does it have to come every day? Yesterday was nice and it was hot so I guess today being rainy and cool would be a break. It's just Monday, Tuesday and Wendesday it rained most of the day.
My youngest son is at the Cape this week for his vacation with his dad. I hope he didn't have all the rain we had here. I know when I talked to him on Wednesday he said it hadn't rained there on that day but he did have rain on Monday and Tuesday. When you go to the Cape you want to go to the beach and if it's raining you can't go. He did say he went to the beach on Saturday and he said the water was warm. I'm so happy that he gets this chance to go there every year. I know when I was in my teens I had a lot of fun when we went camping down there. Of course when we went we camped in a tent trailer way out on the tip of the Cape so it's different from him staying in the time share mid-cape. I think we had more fun than he has because we made our own fun instead of going to the mall or mini-golf. We rode bikes, went hiking on the dunes and walked through downtown P-Town and watched everyone. We ate meals that we made ourselves on a camp stove or caught in the ocean and cooked. We had campfires and roasted marshmellows till they were brown. (in my case burned black) We didn't look to our mother to entertain us we made our own fun.
If we wanted to talk to someone on the phone we walked to the campground store to use the pay phone and fed it change to get our call through. There were no cell phones to make calls on. We didn't have video games to take with us because that would mean bringing the TV and it was a big one and not easy to move around. Besides the reason for camping was to get away from all the comforts of home and have fun in the great outdoors. We had fun without the things our kids HAVE to have now a days. I don't think either of my boys could camp the way I did. I don't know because I don't have the opportunity to take them on the adventures I went on. Heck I'm not even sure if they can ride bikes. I learned on a very small 2 wheeler that had been passed down from my Aunt when she was little. I also don't think I can get my older son out of the house never mind out of a trailer. And if I did get him to go camping I don't think he would camp in a pop up trailer like I did. He'd want a motor home because it has all the comforts of home. Kids today are spoiled and we did it to them. We gave them hand held gaming devices and cell phones. We gave them the X-Box's or Wii's or Play Staions. We spoiled our children into thinking they can't live without these things.
How I wish I could go back in time and say to my mother "Thank you for bringing me to such a wonderful place." I loved camping and wish I could have shared it with my children. It's a shame that they will never know how nice it is to hear the sound of the sea crashing on the beach or the peepers in the marshes at night. Now all they hear is the trucks going up and down the highway. There are times when you can't even hear the birds over the noise from the main street here where I live. I miss these things.
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