Sleeping in tents

Last night (or this morning) was the first time I had ever TRIED to sleep in a tent. A group of friends and I thought it would be a fun idea to have a bonfire and spend the night outside in a tent to celebrate our graduation and our last event as a Show Choir together. The experience was... well... an experience. Everyone else came prepared with about 3 comforters and blankets each and I came with 1 pillow and 1 afghan. I figured that if we were all going to spend the night in one tent that it would stay pretty warm from body heat and being close to a fire. I WAS HORRIBLE WRONG. I think I was only able to finally fall asleep (for maybe 3 hours) because my body began to shake and shiver from being so cold that I was finally able to lull myself to sleep. To top it all off it started to rain shortly after we entered our tent for the night. At the time, we stayed completely dry and didn't think we were going to be affected by the rain, but I was the first one to wake up in the morning (because I had to work today from 10am to 5pm) and my pillow was completely soaked and I could see everyone else's pillows and blankets were, too. By the time I got home from work everyone had left and they had cleaned everything up, so I'm guessing nothing got to trashed or out of hand, and I'm just glad I didn't have to deal with a messy clean-up.

Needless to say, my first experience with sleeping outside in a tent could have gone more smoothly, but at least I was with some good friends to make it all better. (oh, and I was able to power nap when I got home from work, so that makes it all better, too!)