Today we went to a camping shop. Now let’s be honest – these places do nothing for me. They are not browsing places, they are purely functional. You go in; everything seems out of place (well it is all designed for outdoors, now, isn’t it?); you get what you want; you leave.
Well, my kids love them! Previously we had gone to camping shops with display tents set up and they would go crazy climbing in and out of the tents, giggling like hyenas, so I had thought that it was a tent thing. Apparently not. The shop today has nothing to recommend it to adults (unless you want to buy stuff, I guess) and even less to recommend it to children but they had a blast. It was almost impossible to get them out of the shop!
I just don’t get it. Let’s just hope they are still this enthusiastic when we are doing the real thing.
