Camping in the Rain is NOT fun!!!

Well, here we are in Murphy's California. We arrived to the campground yesterday around noon, and had a wonderful afternoon. Our campsite is right on a huge meadow that is kind of marshy with nice redwood tree's around it. There is a HUGE bearbox that is double locked on each site. For example of how big it is, it fits two coolers, many small items and a huge rubbermaid box with all of our "dry" goods in them. Austin met a few little friends and had a great afternoon of "hacking" at stumps and dirt with his hammer. He found a worm and quickly put it into his "bugmameter" (a gun type object that sucks up bugs with a vacuum and then has a magnifying glass on it. In the afternoon we walked across the meadow/marsh (they have these cool boardwalks crisscrossing the marsh). We went to the visitors center and then on a small walk around to see some of the big trees that are just in the park vicinity.

After a wonderful dinner of steak wrapped in bacon, we went to bed around 9:30 pm, it was FREEZING, so Austin slept inbetween us. Yikes, cramped quarters, but at least I didn't worry about the little guy freezing to death. During the night I woke up a couple times to the sound of light rain...at 6am Austin exclaimed "I hear rain". Well, after that it didn't quit. It was freezing AND raining. We are camping at 4000+ feet. We went back to sleep until 7:30 and then hung out in the tent, the boys (Mark and Austin) eating frosted flakes dry, and me, jonesing for a Mocha. Mark and I took turns driving to the shower and then it was around 9am. We drove south to Columbia (it wasn't raining at the lower elevations) then onto Sonora and then farther south to Jamestown and the 1897 Railtown State Park. We had a wonderful day with me thinking "When we get back, everything will be dry and I will be happy". WRONG THOUGHT! When we got back it was raining around 3500 feet. We tried to make the best of it with Austin slogging around with his hammer hacking away, and me moping about the rain, and how we had nothing to sit on that was dry, and Mark doing this best to keep me happy and start a fire......we finally gave up when the fine mist turned into heavy rain again......off to Murphys to the Murphy's Suites. I'm doing laundry now, and the boys are warm upstairs in our room watching TV!! I love camping, but not in the rain.... We've decided that if it doesn't dry up tomorrow, we are packing it in and either going home or going to Tahoe for a couple days!!!