Camping in the Bavarian Alps

WOW, I never thought I would be able to say that I went camping in the Alps. It is beautiful there. We did have quite the adventure.

After getting to our camp site, and setting up I started dinner. I was just finished assembling our hobo dinners and had put them on the grill when it began to rain. I threw a tarp over the table and ran for the tent. I was sure that the pouring rain would put out the charcoal that was supposed to be cooking our dinner. About 10 minutes later the rain stopped, and I went to check on the food. The tinfoil packages of our hobo dinners had protected the charcoal, and our food was still cooking.

We ate our dinner, and sat around the charcoal grill(no open fires allowed) and roasted marshmallows and ate smores. After cleaning up and covering everything with a tarp we went to bed. It rained most of the night, and there was lightening and thunder. About 2AM my youngest climbed into bed with me. she didn't like the thunder.

The next morning we realized that the tent had leaked and our girls bedding was soaked. We didn't have the air mattresses with us so there was nothing protecting the bags from getting wet.

My wonderful husband stood in the rain over the grill cooking us breakfast. The rain continued. We ate our wonderful breakfast, and then began to empty our tent and takes things into the pavilion that was nearby. By this time we were all soaked. The kids did have fun adventuring in the rain. So, bedding was soaked, and some of the extra clothes from the leaky tent. This was supposed to be a 2 night camping trip............................but, at the last minute we changed our plans. We took our tent and other wet belongings into the pavilion in a feeble attempt to dry them out a little before packing them up. We still had one more day of our vacation, and didn't really want to go home just yet. So we made alternate plans for the second day...............................to be continued.