Tenting it up

Went to REI with Mer and got a tent, $99. The salesman was talking up the big dome model for at $269 and he pretty much had me sold until he walked away - I no longer had to stare into his memorizing patchwork beard. I'm pretty sure this is how Freud hyptnotised people, not a pocketwatch.

So now I just need to practice setting it up, should be no thang
(I wrote "shoudl be a piece of cake" but I think "cake" in that instance would elude to "cake walks" in which slaves were given pieces of cake if the danced well for their owners. Does anyone know if this is true, or if I just made it up somehow between facts. I think, to be safe, I might just eliminate cake from my vocabularly - fortunately I prefer pie.)

Now I just need to figure out the whole driving part of the trip. Oh and Mer found out about this. So now I have one thing on my to do list.