OUTPLAY. OUT IN THE WILDERNESS July 24 Dear Diary, It’s Thursday, the day campers are back at home, and this afternoon we’re heading out into the woods to sleep in tents tonight in the wilderness. I don’t really know what to expect because most of my camping has been in Nana and Pops’s Winnebago. I guess we do stay in tents at family camp—but Dad lets us watch movies on his laptop at night. I don’t think anyone would call that kind of camping “roughing it.” I kind of hope wilderness camp will be something like that TV show called Survivor. It’s one of Dad’s favorite shows, and sometimes I watch it with him. The best thing about Survivor is the immunity challenges that the contestants play. My least favorite thing about it is the bugs. And the nasty food they have to eat to stay alive. (Dad told me about one time when the contestants cooked a rat and ate it! GROSS!) Macy told me she’s a little nervous about being out in the woods in the dark. I told her there’s nothing to worry about, and I’ll protect her.
