1. Madeline Island is not having a drought this month.
2. Site #19 at Big Bay State Park is very muddy when it rains for 24 hours straight.
3. Your van wheel makes a really neat clunking noise when you drive after your toddler drops a rock into one of the hubcap openings.
4. A berry identification book is a good thing to buy if you are camping with a toddler. The bright orange berries that Rowan ate are called bunch berries, by the way, and they are harmless - I found out after speeding away in a panic to the Ranger Station with a berry sample in my hand.
5. The Park Rangers at Big Bay State Park think I am a maniac.
6. The old me would have laughed if you ever told me I'd sleep in a tent called "The Kahuna" and that it would be large enough to fit a Pack n Play. The new me thinks Damn...that worked out well.
7. Cowboy caviar is a great thing to bring camping: it's healthy, travels well and even mixes well with leftover pasta.
8. Cowboy caviar makes people gassy (gassy + tent mates = well, you know....) and makes toddlers poop twice as much.
9. Maybe cowboy caviar is not a great thing to bring camping.
10. Diapers are hard to change in the rain.
11. Driving around the entire island to warm up from the rain might have been a good idea of that 10 miles of gravel road weren't so mucky from said rain. Our van is a new color.
12. It's fun to run around a muddy van while leaning on it around the entire circumference.
13. Four extra sets of clothes is not enough when camping in the rain with two small boys.
14. You should bring lots of extra clothes for yourself when camping in the rain with two small boys. You never know when you'll be stepped on or kicked with muddy shoes worn by the toddler having the tantrum.
15. Swimming is a great activity in the rain. I mean, you're wet anyway.
16. The scissors on a Swiss Army Knife will entertain a five-year old for hours. Especially if you show him how to cut grass, one blade at a time.
17. If your car batteries die on the ferry boat to Bayfield, they will push you off.
18. I'd do it again, rain and all.
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