"You get what you Pay for" (?)

See that tent in the background? It sucked. It didn't do (at all) what you would expect a tent to do....which is to keep the weather outside (specifically, the rain), and to keep us comfortable inside. Z and I went into the tent to take a nap (on our sopping, wet sleeping bags), and we ended up getting literally rained on. It was drip-drip-dripping onto our faces, and I kept thinking it might be less wet if we laid in a puddle outside.
That is B right before the rain became torrential. Before we decided we could no longer survive outside.

We were (thank God) invited to wait out the rain in our friend's tent, and we are so thankful for that. Not only was our tent raining inside, but it was much less boring to spend the FIVE hours singing, talking (or yelling over the rain), and reading books with others than to sit in our soaking tent by ourselves.

I wonder why we can't ever find a decent tent.

Oh. Maybe it's because we keep trying to save money by getting them at Walmart.

Huh.