Camping With Our New Family Tent - Coleman Dark Room 10 Person

You know when you go to Costco and you see like all the really cool things and you're like someday we're gonna get that because it looks really cool. Well this is the trip that we did that. Here's the baby. Hi guys welcome back to Breffington. I'm Tara and today we're going on a family camping trip. It's gonna be rainy and wet but it's gonna be a lot of fun. So we are on our way. It's just about an hour away from our home which is so cool living out here in the Pacific Northwest. We get to do stuff like that. I'm sure there's other places that that's a thing but in Arizona you kind of have to go a little farther to get to a good camping spot. Anyway we're on our way. We're really excited. One because it's our first camping trip of the summer. I'm hoping to do a lot more and then also because we got a brand new tent and it's gonna be it's gonna be really great. So we're excited to get it set up especially because it's raining so we're gonna need some shelter but yeah so come along with us on our family camping trip. Four kids and a puppy and two adults who might be over their heads with all this stuff. We're good. It's gonna be fine. There's our spot. Spot number 10. We had to get online. Create an account on recreation.gov. Just online and then I was able to choose the campsites. They're all pretty much booked out but because because it's kind of rainy weather. I found one that was available tonight. Cool. And you paid like 30 bucks? 30 bucks. $39 I think is like the total charge after like fees and everything like that. Cool. Let's do it guys. It's gonna be raining. I'll get your raincoats out okay? Okay so we got a new tent and you know when you go to Costco and you see like all the really cool things and you're like someday we're gonna get that because it looks really cool. Well this is the trip that we did that. Zach went to Costco and he calls me he's like should we get this big awesome 10 person tent with the darkroom situation going on and I said do it and we're just gonna unpack it get it going and try and get out of the rain because guys we knew it was gonna be rainy tonight but we just it I mean it's raining it's not like a it's not too bad okay let's get the tent up. Okay darkroom technology, 10 person, fast pitch system, ePort for like electronic stuff so we're gonna kind of just open this thing up and see hopefully review it for other families if they're interested in getting it it's the big one I think exclusively sold by Costco so anyway I hope this works. So there was just like like a million things to bring we have like camping chairs for everyone, the tent, warm clothes, blankets for sleeping you know like camping stuff obviously it's like it's whatever but the one one of the things I forgot was a coat for the baby I got two coats for everyone else in the family but I didn't get one coat for the little tiny baby so loser I'm just a loser right now but he seems okay he's kind of like I think he's just interested in what's going on right now so he's not I don't know I think he's okay. You okay? But you still have lots of good things that you did. Thanks Piper. Piper says I'm not doing bad I'm doing good and we've got a brand new cord for the puppy so we kind of like you know nailed it into the ground over there and got a big long leash so she can explore but she's still figuring it out hope it's not too bad. Okay get back to setting up the tent. Whoa that thing is huge! Okay so here's the inside of our tent we've opened some of these windows so we have some light in here which makes all the difference yesterday we couldn't because the rain would come in so that is definitely a thing for me is that we couldn't open any of the windows because the rain would come in and there was just no way to keep the rain out except to have everything closed all the time so we really like the tent the best part was that everyone slept until eight o'clock it was amazing they normally wake up at like 630 or 7 normally at home so it was really awesome to have it be super dark in here so that the kids didn't wake up but yeah gotta kind of figure out if that's what you and your family need or not also please don't think this is like a sponsored post at all we just thought it'd be fun to get this tent and try it out I wish it was sponsored that would be pretty awesome okay so that was a little bit of a jump it is now morning time last night was I would have thought this trip was a fail last night but this morning since it's not raining and everything's fine and people slept really good it was not a fail no it's been really good it hasn't been like the fun magical camping trip that I that I imagined but it was a it was a good first experience camping this summer but the kids really loved the tent they love getting into their sleeping bags when they climbed into their sleeping bags Porter was like this is the best part about camping and I thought that's not usually my favorite part of camping so I don't know it was fine but we're here now that got a good fire going for us so that we can stay a little warm Brady did good even without a jacket he was awesome slept all night Zach was so good even though he slept on the ground didn't get an air mattress like mommy and Porter was good too found a stick good girl what do you think about the tent Zach? I thought that was great I feel like the awesome things about it where it was super easy to put together it has like this hub in the middle there were two that were colored that we quickly figured out like certain stakes went to those lines and all the rest went to the others super easy to put up it took less than 10 minutes and in the rain it's a lot bigger than I was imagining so it barely fits on our like pad so that's a consideration I think it's 14 feet by 10 feet and I think it like did a good job keeping things wet except it was raining as we were setting it up so it got really wet on the inside my only complaint about the whole thing is there's not like any kind of pole that keeps the rain fly like away from the entrance so every time we would kind of open the door in and out it would drop so that was like the one thing that was like a bummer they do have all the different like guy lines and all like the the cords that you can like pull it tight which would achieve that but if it's already raining and all that like it kind of stinks to have to do all that when you set up a tent I've had other ones where you just put in like the pole and it kind of keeps it away from the entrance so you can walk in and out and not get water all in the tent so that was a bit of a bummer but overall like the darkroom technology is legit like the kids slept till 8 even though the Sun was out at like 530 so that was awesome and I think it was hard when we were setting up because it was already getting dark but we will have a lantern next time so we can light up really well the inside of the tent so we don't have to have that be an issue because it was so dark we couldn't see anything as we're setting up we had to have all of our flashlights and stuff so just get a lantern if you have it so it'll be light inside when you want it to be and dark when you don't there's the blue jay right up there in that tree and just like that it's all packed away well like it's super easy for setup but it's like not super clear the instructions anything like yeah like the quickest way to fold it because if we're rolling it all attached right okay so we have the whole camp all packed up and we're heading home it is just about like 11 o'clock 11 15 I would have liked again we wanted to go on a hike in things but I don't know the way things turned out I just kind of want to get everyone home and make sure Brady is nice and warm and yeah but all in all this was it fulfilled part of what I wanted for my camping dreams is that we can come we can set up camp and and do it and do it so often that it's not like reinventing the wheel every single time but I did have fun and I we just need to do it again on a more sunny day and we'll I think the kids will have a lot more fun and we'll be able to explore a little bit more really excited about Scotty and how much fun she had I hope she's didn't wear herself out too much we like the Coleman dark tent situation it was a great size for our family I thought everyone had plenty of room and all of our stuff had a space so that was really good and yeah so that was our camping trip guys thanks for watching make sure you subscribe like and click the bell so you can know when I post another video and find me on Instagram that's how you can connect with me message me there I really want to connect better with you to Instagram so that's all thanks for watching bye