Behind The Awkwardness: The Great Outdoors 3
April 7th, 2011
“This is a photo of my sister camping in Hana, Hawaii. We lived there during our ‘awkward’ phase of 12-14. Family friends, who didn’t have children of their own, decided it would be a good idea to take 5 girls camping ages 9-13. Notice the lovely Christmas nightshirt my sister thought she should wear camping in July. She also is wearing the same braid that my mother put her hair in 4 days earlier. Jen was so filthy I think my mom burned her nightshirt when we got home.”
(submitted by Shauna)
Tags: messy
I love camping SO much- but this photo is yet another reminder of why we have no family camping pictures. The cameras do NOT accompany us on our camping trips!!!
Cute picture, though. This is exactly how I am while camping.
This isn’t what I would call Awkward, this is a typical kid.
Kid looks hungry. I hate camping when I’m hungry. then I look just like her. Except not as dirty.
We camped in 2 tents at Yosemite, 2 adults in one tent, 2 adolescent boys in another.
At 3AM, son #2 insisted someone escort him to the restroom, claiming ‘there’s a bear out there.’
We ridiculed him mercilessly and told him to just go and let us sleep.
Then we heard a loud growl about 6 octaves lower than anything we’d ever heard in our lives.
He waited until daylight to venture out.
We did, too.
THAT would be why I hate camping!!
Is this native Hawaiian wildlife?
This picture makes me laugh. It looks to me like she swallowed a bug.
exactly what I thought!
Yep, my first thought even before reading the caption was…..oooh someone went camping!
Looks like she’s gonna blow chunks again.
I love not camping.
This is why I don’t camp
we all look this way after a great camping trip
Sisquatch
Oh this made me laugh so hard. Thank you.
I’m crying!
It had rained for 3 days!! This was also after my sister threw up the whole way there!
That explains the dirtiness, maybe. But what’s with the face? That’s better than all the other awkwardness put together.
So you’re the Jen in the picture! Excellent. Just a hilarious picture. I love the backstory that was provided!
I thought she was like 68
This pic sums up why I detest camping. God wants us to have flush toilets, hot showers and inner spring mattresses or else he wouldn’t have given us the ability to invent them!
amen.
I agree with you 100%! My idea of roughing it was staying in a cabin with no phone or TV. I could hear the wildlife roaming around outside and barely slept at all that night convince a bear was going to break in! LOL
We didn’t take a real honeymoon as we had relatives from all over the country fly in for our wedding and we wanted to spend time with them before they went back. We took a short weekend trip to a lodge hubby’s aunt won a getaway weekend to in a raffle. As we pulled up, I spotted an outhouse. I refused to get out of the car until he went inside the cabin and confirmed that there was a flusher and shower. Later that night, we heard noises and he went out to see what it was. I made him leave the car keys with me before he went. The next day, after finding poop piles the size of footballs, we found out it was a rogue bull bison that staked out the area around our cabin in this as his territory. A housekeeper told us that the previous week he had held her “hostage” in the cabin for several hours, butting his head against the cabin and tearing off the porch railing with his horns! Take me back to the city!!!
I love this story!
“rogue bull bison ” Yep, Red Bull will keep you up all night… good thing you were on your honeymoon!
She looks like she’s just eaten the other campers.
“Survivor: the Next Generation!”
Good one!
Looks to me like a kid just having a good time!
Looks to me like a kid just having a god time!
I’m sorry for that Donna : )
I think her sister will say, “Watch your back. Pay backs are double. Be afraid; be very afraid,” when she sees she’s on the website. lol
If you aren’t filthy when you’re camping, you aren’t doing it right
Exactly!
has she been eating dirt or oreo cookies?
Neither… Do:
I had to do a double take. This looked just like me as a kid. It is uncanny. Gave me goose bumps.
I’m sorry…
BAhahahaha!,snarky,awesome..
I had the same thought! “Wow, that girl looks just like Donna Stone. Whoever that is.”
Winning!