Polly organizes a camping trip

Hi! It’s Polly Panda here and can I tell you – I had the most awesome idea! You might know that I have two little brothers, Peter and Patrick, and a little sister called Penny. In the summer they just love spending almost all their time outside, swimming, riding bikes, hiking. They are non-stop bundles of energy. Every night when my mom calls them to get ready for bed, I swear the three of them come dragging their feet and whining about having to come in. So I just thought – why come in? Why don’t we have our own little camping trip right outside in our backyard? Wouldn’t that be fun? My mom and dad said it was okay, so Penny, Peter, Patrick and I spent the whole afternoon putting up the tent. Here’s the thing – it’s SUPPOSED to take ten minutes to put up this tent. I guess the tent manufacturers never met my little brothers and sister though because that didn’t exactly go according to plan. But we finally got it up in the end. After dinner my dad set up the Marshmallow Pit from the W Shop and we all sat around it in our pajamas and sleeping bags and told ghost stories, which seemed like a lot of fun at the time but not such a good idea later on. In the middle of the night I woke up to hear Patrick crying because he was scared and he wanted our mom. So I had to get up out of my cozy sleeping bag and walk Patrick into the house where he climbed into bed with my parents. Then I had to go back out to the tent. You know what? Just walking from the house to the tent in my own backyard even I was kind of scared. It’s so dark and quiet in the middle of the night. But I got back to the tent, snuggled in between Peter and Penny and fell right back asleep. We woke up to Patrick clambering back into the tent on top of us all this morning and then my mom brought us big plates of pancakes and maple syrup. That’s one good thing about camping right next to your house – you can eat your mom’s home cooking!

We all had so much fun we can’t wait to do it again!

32 Responses to Polly organizes a camping trip

  1. Gymnast says:

    Sounds like fun Polly. I love pancakes and s’mores.

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