The air is cool and the breeze caresses our faces while the firelight dances in the women's eyes. This is the first night of their "girls camping weekend." This annual event has happened for six years now. They always camp in the same site, away from the main campers; they have more privacy that way. A campsite full of women tends to attract some attention, even when they don't mean to.
It is Friday night -- opening night for them. No responsibilities, no chores -- just relaxation and the comfort of good friends. They had all arrived, set up their camp and were all relaxing in their seats, drinks in hand. They were in a different campsite this year -- a hurricane had come through the weekend before and they had to use a new site, in the main portion of the campground.
The campground began filling up as they added more and more wood to the fire, broke out the snacks and refilled their drinks. Every so often a group of two or three would wander through the campground to the bathroom. Around 10pm they decided to do their "walkabout" which was code for scoping out the men in the campground for the single women in the group. There were only three single girls out of eight, but they all jumped at the chance to help their fellow tent mates.
They walked the entire four loops of the campground in just under a half an hour and had chatted with several people, made another stop at the restrooms and had almost made it to our site when several nice looking men stopped them.
"Are any of you ladies a nurse?" the blonde man asked, slightly out of breathe.
Two women in the group are nurses, and readily volunteered. "Beth and Sam are nurses." Diane announced.
"Would you two mind walking to our site and taking at look at one of the guys hands? He burned it making dinner." The other blonde man said.
"Sure." Beth replied.
"Absolutely." Said Sam.
The women exchanged glances and giggled, and they headed up the driveway to their site - Beth and Sam walked to the campsite across the street from their campsite.
The rest of the women went back to their relaxation by the campfire. It was only a few minutes until Beth came running back to the campsite to grab the first aid kit.
"He only has a first degree burn -- Sam is keeping him company while I get the supplies. You gals should stop over there -- like 10 cute campers across the way!!" Beth said excitedly as she grabbed her kit and jogged back across the seat.
The ladies were laughing and joking when the two nurses returned from their bandaging duties.
"Well, how did it go? Did you save him?" Teresa joked.
"Did you have to perform mouth to mouth on all of them? Jane added.
Giggles and comments abounded from the circle of women around the campfire.
"Girls -- they boys across the way said that there is a concert tomorrow night -- a sort of grateful dead type deal that the campground puts on every year. They said they will stop by on the way to see if anyone would like to go." Sam said as she laughed.
Beth added, "We have to go back tomorrow to help him change his dressing -- or something like that."
After the fire had all but burned out, the women headed to bed a few at a time.
The next day dawned sunny and a little warmer. After a day of hiking and swimming in the creek the women came back to camp and cooked a big dinner of chicken, potatoes and pasta salad.
Sam and Beth went back to check on the patient and were happy to report he was doing just fine under their care.