Vacation time!!!!!

As of the writing of this post, I am less than 12 hours away from my first ever vacation as a married gal!!!! I am SO ready. Tomorrow we'll be getting the bathroom cleaned out as much as possible, and the shed in the back yard cleaned out. Saturday we'll redo the bathroom flooring and the plumbing (that's me! Cute little plumber... in a skirt!). Sunday we'll do church and tie up loose ends with the renovations... and then our bags will be PACKED! (Which reminds me, I should probably pack those bags tomorrow. *adding that to list* lol)

We don't know yet where we are going for sure... if the supplies for the renovations are low enough, we would like to head to Kentucky and maybe go to Mammoth Caves. We're only 4 hours from there (I mapquested it lol) and I've always wanted to go. James went once before as a boy scout and loved it. Tours of the cave range from $5 - $24 per person (depending on which tour you want) and it costs $12-22 to camp there. (You get to choose from three different sets of sites to camp at.) We'll probably choose the $17 one, because it has SHOWERS! And really, who wants to smell me if we choose another campsite? If we are broke, we'll find some local park to camp at... or maybe somewhere in between if our finances are somewhere in the middle. Who knows... we might end up in Iowa or something lol The only thing for sure, is that we want to CAMP.

Now, my question is... we have never been camping before! We obviously need to buy a tent... (anyone have any recommendations?) but we also need to buy/borrow/beg for/steal the other stuff we'll need for our camping fun. Umm... but what DO I need? I'll make a little list, and maybe you all can help me add to it?

Tent
Sleeping bags
Food
Flashlights
Yarn (I take yarn everywhere... even camping.)
Charcoal (for cooking stuff), & aluminum foil
Cooler & Ice (lots of ice. LOTS.)
Bottled water (Mmm... made cold by the ice... )
Bug spray

What else can you think of? Any camping advice you want to share? (Please?)