I Thought the Kids Tenting Would Be Relaxing

Wrong! All it meant was that Tammy and I were worrying about them out there as the weather shifted in the night. 😴

We set up the new tent on Thursday night. The weather wasn’t super, but it was supposed to be dry.

Miranda was tired and cool from her BCC ride, so it was less of an event and more of just sleeping in different environs. They were warmly dressed and in their sleeping bags, but still their comment on the experience was that it was cold. Then last night the weather was much more summery. It was still 20 degrees at 10 pm and the kids took a laptop out there and had a “late movie”.

But then the wind picked up around 2 am and was gusting at gale force by 3 am. We went out and shepherded the kids inside at that point, but the night was already written off. I think I might have gotten about 2 hours of broken sleep and 2 or 3 of decent sleep.

That wasn’t a good thing, because at 9 am I had my Saturday bike ride, and today we headed out to Airdrie. It was beautiful in the morning. The pace was fast and the route was rolling, which really burnt me out. Too many times into the red and I bonked on the last major hill of the day.

We barely made it home before a big thunderstorm hit Calgary. I got home about 12:45, and by 1:00 the thunder was rolling while Tammy barbecued kebabs. We’d only sat down when the hail started. No damage, but you certainly wouldn’t want to be out on a bike in it.

The kids had already packed up the tent by that time, so the tenting adventure has come to an end for the moment. Perhaps they will give it another shot when the summer weather is truly here and we can go more than a few hours without wild stuff happening.