The B doesn’t go in the woods
In an effort to garner some ratings for two shows no one really cares about, Kate Gosselin and her brood went good old fashioned camping with the Palin’s. As you would expect, the trip quickly turned into a disaster. The National Enquirer reports that Kate had no interest in fishing, hunting or panning for gold because it was raining. When they handed her a bucket with a toilet seat on top, Kate said, ‘What the hell am I going to do with this!’ Then she burst into tears and started moaning that she wanted to leave. Kate eventually ditched the Palins, who spent the night in their tents. TLC will air the trip on November 14th.
This reminds me of my favorite camping story. My girlfriend at the time and I were going to meet my roommate Alex and his girlfriend at a campground for a weekend of boating, fishing and roughing it. Alex had decided to take a few days off of work and head up early. When Amy and I showed up on Friday afternoon, we found that they had scoped out the site and set up their tent in a perfect spot. Our campsite sloped downhill and ended in a little grassy spot surrounded by trees. You guessed it, Alex’s tent was pitched on the nice, soft grass, leaving us up on top of the hill – and the rocks. Aside from a bit of a rough night sleep, this being before air mattresses were so common, we embarked on a fun day. That afternoon, as we were getting back to the campsite, it started to sprinkle a little. Alex grabbed a deck of cards and we passed the time playing Sheeps-head with the girls in my tent. AS we were playing, we noticed the rain starting to come down a bit harder… and a bit harder. Pretty soon we were waiting through a pretty nasty storm.
When the storm cleared, we come out of the tent to survey the scene. Alex went down to his tent, where he found everything floating in about a foot and a half of water. We quickly packed all of our wet stuff up and headed back to the city. Amy and I chuckled all the way about Alex’s prime choice of tent locations.
