My guy and I love to go camping, but the weather hasn’t been too cooperative lately. We had made plans to go camping on particular weekend but the weather was to be cold and raining all weekend. My guy was disappointed to say the least. After he had gone to work for a few hours I decided to surprise him. I have a spare room for guests to stay over and I had a futon in this room. I hung a clothes line across the room and draped a waterproof tarp over the clothes line. I unfolded the futon to lay flat and placed it under the tarp. I attached the ends of the tarp to either side of the futon to make a make-shift tent. I then went outside and got some sticks for firewood. I made a fire using the sticks and orange, yellow and red tissue paper as flames. I set up two folding lawn chairs and a small folding lawn table by the fire. I then bought two of the Tiki lawn candles that are on bamboo posts and filled two buckets with sand and put the candle torches into the buckets and placed them into the room. I placed a small piece of artificial grass rug on the floor around the fire. I finished the room by putting glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling and I plugged in the black light to illuminate them even more. I also put a nature tape into the portable CD player and put it into the room. I then threw burgers and hot dogs on the grill on the back porch shortly before my guy returned home. When he arrived home I handed him his plate with the grilled food on it and asked him to follow me. I led him up to the “camp site” in the spare room and informed him that we were camping out that night regardless of the weather. We sat and ate our food around our “fire” while listening to the tape of birds and waterfalls in the background. I lit the Tiki candle torches and we then laid in our “tent” and snuggled up the rest of the evening looking up at the stars. My guy especially liked his own personal message of “I Love You” that I had written out with the stars on the ceiling. We have left the spare room like this for our next camping trip on another evening!
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