Last night we experienced our first truly scary moments since we've been in our camper. It was around 10:30, my husband and I were already sleeping when I was awakened to a racket in our bathroom, or so I thought. It sounded like the kids were digging under the sink for something. The space isn't big enough to hold too much, so it really perplexed me as to what was taking so long because they were making so much noise. Not only was it noisy, but the movement was also causing the camper to rock back and forth. I couldn't believe that my husband hadn't already yelled at them to quiet down. So, I opened our door a bit further, to tell them to quiet down, only to discover one of my boys with his BB gun in hand, preparing to step outside, my other son had grabbed a flashlight ready to follow and our faithful, ferocious Beagle pup was cowering like a coward on my daughters lap! At this sight, I realized that the sound was not coming from inside the camper, but was certainly on the outside and it dawned on me that someone or something must be getting into our back storage compartment under the rig!
It was clear the kids were really rattled, and they decided it was some type of animal outside because they heard it scratch on the door. My husband still was not awake, so we woke him up, by this time the noise and racket had subsided, no surprise, these walls are really thin and whatever was outside had already heard the kids planning it's demise. Who or what would stick around for that?
At this point, the wind was beginning to pick up quite a bit more with the approaching storm and my husband decided it must have been the awning making so much noise and not a would be intruder. So, the menfolk bravely went outside in the pitch blackness to remedy the problem. Seemed to work, as we didn't hear any other sounds for the rest of the night. And though my husband insisted when he came inside that he was sure it was the awning, I noticed when he left for work this morning that he had slept with a weapon near at hand.
© 2009 Tonya Prater/Live the Adventure
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Jul. 20, 2009 - Hello!
Posted by bripam111
Thank you for visiting my blog. I would love to travel around the country. I am enjoying checking out your blog and seeing where you have traveled. esp. the free resources. I have a goal to teach my kids to drive on route 66!