30 June 2010 : Written by A Camping Ninja
Just been up into the loft looking for my old camping torch. It's amazing what you can find up there. All the memories and how things have changed. Remember the days when tents were complicated to put up and they didn't come with instructions? So you really had to be a ninja to be able to out them up!
It's like a treasure trove of memories up there. I found all my old camping gear and some old photos. Like this one of the time when my Ninja Mama's fold up camping chair collapsed when she was eating her dinner and she got stuck in it, trying to eat soup! Still makes me laugh even now.
Another photo of me as a grumpy little ninja, being packed in the back of the car buried in camping kit. One of our old car with the roof rack on top, with things called spiders, which aren't real spiders but I used to think they were and tarpaulin holding it all together in a tangled mess to protect the tents underneath. Scary stuff when you're a little ninja!
You know I still get that warm fuzzy feeling inside when someone asks me to help them put up a tent. It makes me feel so proud knowing how far I've come. I remember back in the day when I was just a little ninja, way before I got my ninja badge at scouts, when all I was allowed to do when we were camping was blow up the air beds and sweep the pine needles out of the tent. Look at me now, all grown up, pitching tents and able to cook pancakes for breakfast. Now that's progression.