Indoor Camping

Last weekend I planned a date for Justin.  I've had the idea for awhile, but this seemed to be the perfect time to do it since we are away from Utah and can't camp in the real mountains!  I picked him up from work and on the way home told him for our date we were going to go camping.  He seemed a little surprised, but was excited.  I said "I found a place close by here. We're not going to stay over night, just do foil bakes and smores."  We parked the car in our parking garage and I had this sign on the door...

He laughed when he realized camping "close by here", meant our apartment!  I had nature/forest sounds playing, and made indoor smores and got a jumping frog game and a bug picture from the $1 store to color. 

  We made foil bakes for dinner. They were yummy!  

We cooked our foil bakes in the campfire, just like real camping! :) 

 We set up camp by "putting up our tent" in the living room.  We hardly have any furniture and what we do have is all lightweight (air beds, card table chairs, $1 mop, etc), so we were impressed we got anything to stand up! Justin built a lot of forts growing up, so his skills came in handy. Dallin loved playing in our tent with us!

Then a crazy thing happened!  Right above us in the living room, we heard a super loud crack and the whole ceiling shook.  We got out of our tent and found this!!

Our neighbor had fallen through the ceiling!* We each grabbed a leg and pulled him down. He was fine, just a few minor scrapes, and we were lucky too! From his footsteps that we always hear, we thought he was heavy, but not that heavy!* :)

We got back to our indoor camp date and colored our picture, then watched "Atlas Shrugged Part II" which I've been wanting to watch ever since I finished reading the book in January.  It was a very fun date!

*That's not what really happened.  Our ceiling was rattling really loud for the 1st 3 weeks we were here. Maintenance came and cut a hole to find the problem.  They found huge strips of extra metal that weren't bolted down so every time we turned on our air or our neighbors walked, it caused everything to shake and rattle loud.  Super annoying, but we're grateful they were willing to fix it!