Hi wassup! We went camping last week—Sunday, July 11th until Tuesday, July 13th. My fiancé and I decided to invite our friends in our “spot” for a get together last Sunday + it was our friend A’s birthday. Since we already planned our camping months ago, I already prepared the things I needed the night before. My fiancé, however, had different plans—he left early morning of Sunday (he slept over Saturday night) and I thought he went home to prepare the things we will need since he keeps our camping stuff in their place. He texted me around 10am that he’ll go for a bike ride.
Our original plan is to go to the campground early to set-up the tent, then meet our friends later that day on our “spot”. We were supposed to leave at 2pm—he called around 1:30pm to let me know he’s not yet done packing our stuff so we might not leave at the time we agreed to. My mistake at this point was not asking if he needs help. Then 3pm came, I haven’t heard a thing from him. I called him twice and texted him—no answer. I thought he probably fell asleep. Then he texted that because of the very hot weather last Sunday, he had a tension headache. The headache was too bad that it almost made him pass out—according to him. At around 3:30pm, I was starting to get stressed out because our friends are waiting for us and we were the ones who invited them for this hangout. Imagine my embarrassment.
He finally picked me up around 4pm and as usual, we still had to buy some things for camping. At this point, I am trying my best not to get mad or not to get stressed out in order for my day to not get ruined. Because honestly, every time we go camping, this happens. To make the long story short, we end up not setting up the tent and we forgot a lot of things. We forgot the vacuum (which we use to inflate the airbed as it is faster), we forgot the extension cord—and the most important thing: cooking utensils. We even went back in town after setting up the tent to quickly gather the things we forgot and we still forgot the cooking utensils. We end up wasting the food he prepared and had take outs for supper on Monday.
It even rained Sunday night—well technically Monday early morning. My fiancé didn’t bring any jacket or hoodie, good thing the weather wasn’t bad throughout the day—it stayed warm. We are thankful we didn’t wake up with a flooded tent—we were planning to put a tarp overhead but we didn’t had time so we just put an extra tarp under the tent. Despite us branding this camping an “epic fail”, it turned out okay. To be honest, we’re more productive this time than last year’s camping. We played badminton and took a deep in the lake. We didn’t stay in the tent the whole day and I realized I don’t need to pack a lot of clothes for a 2 nights camping. I know I am not alone when it comes to overpacking 🤷🏻♀️ It’s better to overpack than not packing enough for a 3 day trip.
My takeaway for this camping: Ask your partner if they need help—COMMUNICATE! Don’t assume they got it just because they don’t ask for help. And mainly because he doesn’t ask for help and just assume that I will initiate to help him 🤷🏻♀️
Restrictions are slowly being lifted but stay vigilant and keep yourself and your family safe!
Ciao! 💋
