Camping Indoors

The other day I dropped the kids off and decided to go for a little longer ride. There was a sporting goods store out by Home Depot that I wanted to stop by, and it was only another couple of miles down the road. I was trying to find another flag that I could mount on the trike.

When I got there I found that they were having a huge tent sale in the parking lot out in front of the store. I wandered around for a while looking at everything and noticed some tents near the back. They were pretty crappy quality, but the smallest of the three was only $18, marked down from $70 or so. I didn't feel like toting it around for the rest of my ride, so I stopped by again that evening after picking the kids up.

We had a little tent from Ikea that Ian liked, but it was tiny, and he ended up jumping around on it and breaking the poles. This one is a little bit bigger, about 7' square at the base, so it'll probably stand up to the little beasts better.

He tried sleeping in it the first night but got freaked out and moved back to the bed. The last couple nights, though, he's been doing better. I'm not sure how long it's going to last because it takes up most of the free floor space in the room. It'll be fun while it lasts, though.