Camping with wild animals

Last week we decided to put up some tents outside for the kids. We hung "Shukas" (Maasai blankets) on two ropes between two trees in our front yard and the kids had fun playing in their tents. The kids had a reading room, a room for the babies, and a cooking room. Even the older kids came over for a while to play. Mosquitoes and safari ants eventually began to invade the tent so we had to take it down.

A few days later Lexi and Nate decided to go camping over night. Since we have safari ants in our yard and it is the rainy season we were unable to camp outside or even go to a park to camp with all of the animals. So we made our own tent and slept in the living room. The kids were very excited and were involved in the whole process of putting up the tents (we used shukas again), finding the bedding and making it nice and neat, and then finally getting the animals and blankets that they sleep with into the tent.

We all went to bed around 8:00 (a half an hour after the kids usually go to sleep) but they were so excited about their camping experience that they didn't fall asleep until about 10:30. We didn't get to see any wild animals (except Lexi and Nate), but we all have very good imaginations so we pretended to be in the wild with the animals. It was a very fun experience for all of us.