Anyway, we rolled into the first campground deemed at a high enough elevation for suitable sleeping at about 5:30 and were told that it was full (I guess we weren't the only Tucsonans tired of the heat). We drove on to the next campground and found the first two loops totally full. Just as we were getting ready to find a picnic bench and just make it a dinner trip we found an open spot... and it was even a good one! We were watching my parent's dog so we tied both of them trees and I unloaded the car while Evie "helped" Patrick put up the tent. (Apparently ring-around-the-rosy is a very important step in putting together the tent in Evie's mind... who knew?)
By this point it was barely light out so we decided to start dinner. Luckily for us our "neighbors" had some lighter fluid for our charcoal, and Patrick got going on the turkey burgers... the going, I am afraid to say, was excruciatingly slow... so slow that Evie was asleep in the tent by the time dinner was "ready". Ahh nothing like very, very slow roasted burgers :)
In our rush to get out of the house I forgot that the last time we went camping Kita chewed a little hole in one of our tent zippers and subsequently the zipper broke. So we had the small problem of two dogs and no way to efficiently contain them in the tent for the night. Patrick ended up tying them together and then holding onto their leashes as he slept. Well, maybe slept isn't quite the right word for it... fitful rest might be more apropos. The dogs and Patrick may not have slept well but Evie was a champ! She was such a great camper (she even managed to poo in the woods, a feat many an adult cannot list as an accomplishment) and really didn't want to leave the woods. In fact the whole way down the mountain she half cried half moaned about how sad she was to leave "her Catalinas"
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