Be warned... this is kind of a long one :)
Wow!! What an adventure this was! Our family decided that we would camp at Fort Spokane Campgrounds on Lake R
oosevelt. Shawn, the kids, and I decided to go out on Thursday (mom was supposed to meet us up there, but decided to come first thing on Friday morning). Well after a nice short jaunt (5 ½ hours) across the state, we made it to the campgrounds. We didn’t remember our site number so we stopped at the camp host and after a couple of tries, finally found out unlabeled sight. We got out site mostly set up and I started to grill hot dogs. We hadn’t put the rain-fly on as I didn’t think it looked like rain…. Well fortunately we smelled the rain coming and got in on quickly. As the hot dogs were working getting warm, I started cutting
up cantaloupe. The wind started really blowing and I was getting concerned about yuck getting on the melon, then I heard a crack and assumed it was a branch, what I didn’t count on was that the branch was going to hit me on the head!! It was about 1 ½ inches in diameter and broke on my noggin! I had quite a knot but no blood, PRAISE GOD! Then it the rains starts coming down, not just a sprinkles but a holy moly buckets falling out of the sky, we race to get food, ice chests and 
boxes under the awning of our tent. I finally got plates together for the kids, Shawn and I. Then the kids and I got to sit on the floor of the tent and eat. Poor Shawn was trying to get a tarp out to cover the awning to keep some water out, hurry to get the windows up in the Explorer, and a few other quick tasks; after about 5 minutes he made it back to the tent and was soaking wet, I mean drenched. It hailed, rained, thundered, and there was lightening for a couple of hours and finally calmed down. Throughout all of that, we discovered that part of our tent was in a low spot of the site and had a small lake under it. There was lake out the front door of our tent as well and we had to go out through a side door. It was an adventure, the good news is, I am writing this on Saturday and there hasn’t been a drop of rain since, thank you Jesus, so we are dry for the moment, but I thought our starting adventure was worth sharing with my friends. On an ending note, there wasn't drop of rain for the rest of the trip and my mom thanked us for taking all the rain for the first night.
oosevelt. Shawn, the kids, and I decided to go out on Thursday (mom was supposed to meet us up there, but decided to come first thing on Friday morning). Well after a nice short jaunt (5 ½ hours) across the state, we made it to the campgrounds. We didn’t remember our site number so we stopped at the camp host and after a couple of tries, finally found out unlabeled sight. We got out site mostly set up and I started to grill hot dogs. We hadn’t put the rain-fly on as I didn’t think it looked like rain…. Well fortunately we smelled the rain coming and got in on quickly. As the hot dogs were working getting warm, I started cutting
up cantaloupe. The wind started really blowing and I was getting concerned about yuck getting on the melon, then I heard a crack and assumed it was a branch, what I didn’t count on was that the branch was going to hit me on the head!! It was about 1 ½ inches in diameter and broke on my noggin! I had quite a knot but no blood, PRAISE GOD! Then it the rains starts coming down, not just a sprinkles but a holy moly buckets falling out of the sky, we race to get food, ice chests and 
boxes under the awning of our tent. I finally got plates together for the kids, Shawn and I. Then the kids and I got to sit on the floor of the tent and eat. Poor Shawn was trying to get a tarp out to cover the awning to keep some water out, hurry to get the windows up in the Explorer, and a few other quick tasks; after about 5 minutes he made it back to the tent and was soaking wet, I mean drenched. It hailed, rained, thundered, and there was lightening for a couple of hours and finally calmed down. Throughout all of that, we discovered that part of our tent was in a low spot of the site and had a small lake under it. There was lake out the front door of our tent as well and we had to go out through a side door. It was an adventure, the good news is, I am writing this on Saturday and there hasn’t been a drop of rain since, thank you Jesus, so we are dry for the moment, but I thought our starting adventure was worth sharing with my friends. On an ending note, there wasn't drop of rain for the rest of the trip and my mom thanked us for taking all the rain for the first night. 
