We had had a day of multiple activities, singing, playing, walking, eating, scouting... and were death tired when the night approached. We had waited the bonfire to get off so after roasting marshmallows and telling spooky stories... we finally went to bed.
The beds were four bunk beds one on top of the other in every corner or the cottage, they were very, very high, very separated from each other. They didn't have a mattress just a plain flat panel of wood. There was no electricity, we only had sleeping bags and slept with our clothes and sweaters on.
My little sister was in the opposite corner of the cottage on the lower bed. I was on the highest one just across her. I was sharing the bunk bed with my friend Alejandra a very nice girl. All of us were sleeping in pairs.
Suddenly, all girls started to yell and I found out that a bat had entered the cottage... It was flying from one place to another scaring everyone. There was no way to trap it or let it out. The ceiling of the cottage was very high.
After a while it seemed that the bat was gone, it couldn't be seen anywhere, we girls were relieved.
Our leader blew out the candles and asked us to be quiet and sleep.
In the middle of the night... a cry was heard... a cry that was too familiar to me. It was my little sister, so in the dark I climbed down the bunk beds and went to see her. Because it was so cold, she had peed in her clothes and sleeping bag, so I had no choice but to go to my bunker, give her my sweater and my sleeping bag. After she calmed down, I climbed back to my bed and tried to sleep but it was too cold for that. So cold, that I asked my friend Alejandra to sleep over me so I could warm up somehow.
She did it, but after a while she was so heavy that I asked her to move down again... then once more... and then I was freezing so I had to ask her to go back on top of me, and the same story repeated, she was too heavy.
Poor Alejandra, I wasn't allowing her to sleep asking her to move on top and down of me over and over.
Then... out of nowhere, the bat started flying again. It was so dark we just heard it and felt it flying around. All of the sudden, the bat got into my friend's sleeping bag, when she was trying to close it trying to hide her head also in it.
She felt the "scared to death bat" flying inside and she yelled like crazy... I didn't feel protected because I had no sleeping bag...I was scared too, it was such a chaos!
The bat finally left and we couldn't sleep at all hugging each other wishing the little one wouldn't come near us again.
All of us Girl Scouts, were terrified all night... I believe not as much as the poor bat was.
Finally the light of the morning came and we could see... all of us ran out of the cottage as soon as possible...
It was an unforgettable night... a peed sister and a lost of his track bat.
