Well this is not good at all.
Actually in your life's journey with your girlfriend, it's just a wrong street you turned into. You simply turn around and get on the right street.
Wife and I had many of our camping trip plans dashed for many reasons. On one trip, due to bad storms (What do you mean I should have checked the weather forecast? Who does that?
) that wiped out access road to camping area, we had to change our camping plan. We ended up spending the weekend at a model and sightseeing the local town and eating at restaurants. While I preferred to have enjoyed nature, we remained flexible and enjoyed the weekend as much as possible. We pretended to be locals and attended farmers market, watched movies, did window shopping and strolled through the area. If you ask around at cafe/shops, people will eagerly tell you all about local "happenings" and we got to see some neat plays and special events we would have never imagined.
Bottom line, to my girlfriend/future wife, it really didn't matter where we went or what we did, what mattered was that we spent time together. Often in the middle of disaster camping trips where things broke, got badly stuck (We did "hard" 4x4/quad riding to remote areas) and suffered through very primitive camping sites (state primitive camping sites or anywhere nature dictated), we would look at each other and simply laugh at each other.
Believe me, our relationship/marriage/family issues have been very challenging at times during first 15 years together but various camping/4x4/quad trips to far away destinations instilled a bonding to the point where I consider my wife "combat buddy" who I have fought many life's battles with going to hell and back many times and trust as she has always covered my back and we suffered through it all TOGETHER. Wife's friends and family have failed her many times but she says I have never failed her as I have always stood by her through GOOD AND BAD times.
So you and your girlfriend suffering together on this camping trip in rain with poor accommodations is not a bad thing but a good thing. To you, it may seem like a poorly planned nightmare camping trip that's going to frustrate you but to your girlfriend, it's a test of how you will accommodate her and whether you will stick by her side to enjoy the time together.
On one really bad camping trip, wife and I were forced to eat cold canned raviolis inside a leaking tent with wet floor under pouring rain (Yup, "somebody" forgot to check the weather forecast again and our tarp over tent was not working in sideways rain) and I was despondent with disappointment. Wife gave me a smile and said, "We are making happy memories to tell our children later in our marriage to laugh about" and we just rolled around laughing.
One time, an unexpected storm surge began wiping out all the camp sites on the beach (Pismo/Oceano dunes where you can camp on the beach, right to the water) including ours at night. With waves pounding, I was up to my knees/waist in waves while I tried to salvage our camp site and push/move our truck and quad trailer back up the beach (We managed to save our truck/trailer but in the morning, we saw many stuck trucks buried halfway up in the sand and had to be dug/towed out with saltwater damage to interior. And we found out Toyota trucks with large tires can float away out in the ocean
). We went back to sleep soaking wet and covered in sand. After morning shower and eating breakfast at local restaurant (because all of our food was lost or destroyed), I was pissed but my wife said, "You know, I had a wet dream last night" ... and we both burst into laughter.
Our 24 years together is full of bad camping memories BUT looking back, they were the BEST camping memories.
Take heart, no matter how bad your camping trip turns out, you will bond and make lasting memories both of you will cherish.
I told her I am flexible that if its too much of PITB I will tell the private campground pound salt due to their very, very poor descriptions of campsites and we will camp in the forest. If she needs to use the restroom or shower I will drive her to the state park down the road.
There you go, contingency plans. You are starting to accommodate your girlfriend. Good for you. See, you are indeed husband material.
Oh and all she has talked about is the 15mile canoe trip tomorrow
She must be in love with you.
today the river is red flagged due to the rain we had last night. I hope it goes back down tomorrow. If not I see a lot of fishing and hiking in our future.
I am sure you will see to it that both of you have the time of your lives on this camping trip!