My husband and I are back home from our camping trip at Governor Dodge State Park in southwestern Wisconsin. The trip itself was great but our arrival home late Thursday night…not so much.

Our side by side refrigerator freezer died while we were gone which meant instead of coming home, unpacking, and then popping on this blog to write a little bit about our trip on Thursday night and Friday, I instead had the lovely task of plugging my nose and dumping all my previously cooled and frozen food. It will be a while before I am hungry for peas or Tilapia. Those two things smelled the worst!

The fridge must have stopped working about 5 minutes after we left home because we were only gone 5 days yet everything in the freezer had completely thawed and gotten warm.

The good news is that the store we bought it from came out right away Friday morning to fix it and the part itself was only $27. The bad news is that labor and the trip charge will probably be over $100.

The other good news is my refrigerator and freezer are really clean, but the downside of that is the only food we now have are the leftovers from camping which means our fridge contains half a container of milk, half a container of orange juice, 4 eggs, 3 slices of cheese, and 7 hot dogs. I guess we could have cheesy eggs with sliced hot dogs for lunch today…….sounds kind of yucky doesn’t it?

I never realized how many condiments I had in my fridge. I’m not sure why I thought we needed 4 kinds of hot sauce; 3 varieties of pickles; 5 types of mustard; and regular mayo, light mayo, and miracle whip.

But I digress. I’ll get back to the topic of camping in a few minutes.