Indian Princess camp out is the best weekend of the year. We do it the first Sat of December every year at a large youth ranch right in the middle of the state of Florida. Its is a combined campout with about a dozen tribes. The different tribes have stink bomb and water balloon fights all night and some tribe always brings a bucket of crickets to turn loose in peoples' tents. Most of the tribes are from the same small town and most all know each other.
I dread the work leading up to it and the sleeping in a tent for 2 nights kind of sucks, but when we are back at home on Sunday late morning I am on top of the world. The dad group rocks and we cook/smoke a ton of food all weekend.
A couple of years ago on our walk back to camp after the giant bonfire and my oldest ( maybe 12 at the ) asked " Dad, can we come when I am in college?" all the dads laughed and told " Heck yeah, I will come as long as you girls want to"
My oldest is 16 now and I have approx 118 more weekends before she goes to college. I am trying my hardest to create as many lasting memories for us as i can. Next up is a quick getaway this weekend to see the NCAA Women's Lacrosse National Championship game in NC.