Misadventures in camping

This past weekend we had plans to go camping with our upstairs neighbors...unfortunately they had to leave town for a funeral, so Marc and I decided we would just go on our own. Marcus actually didn't have to work Friday night, which was exciting, so we headed up into the mountains around 5:30. We found a great camping spot, after a little bit of hiking, and set up our tarp and sleeping bags. We didn't have a tent, but we didn't really think we would need one...Anyway, we had a really fun evening building a fire and cooking dinner outside and enjoying the sunny weather. We'd both had a really long week, so we were glad to just be able to relax. Since I've never been camping in the mountains before, I totally didn't think we would even need our sleeping bags, since the weather was so nice and warm. Then it got dark. And ridiculously cold. Needless to say, we were WAY under prepared for how cold it got. We didn't wear or bring warm clothes, and only one of our sleeping bags was warm enough. Well, it was warm enough until you fell asleep and shifted enough to let the freezing air in...We both ended up awake for most of the night, I think we got about two hours of sleep all together. We finally gave up around 5:30 in the morning and hiked back out to our car, to go home to sleep on our much more comfortable bed. Next time we will definitely bring a tent. Cots don't sound too bad either, as the ground was less than comfortable...