In our area, the thought of sleeping under the stars can be terrifying. Not because we have an abundance of lions or tigers or bear or even the imaginary ones. What we have are worse, mosquitoes! The curse of the earth can manage to find the smallest patch of skin, not coated in deet, and repeatedly suck your blood while you sleep. If they can’t find a place to land, they seem perfectly content to simply buzz around your ears. This was not enough to deter Drake and Alexia from sleeping on the trampoline. I explained many times that they would make it through the night and they proved me wrong. I figured they would look more sheepish in the morning when I expected to find them in their beds, but they were confident that they would succeed.
