Annual Mandatory Batfam Camping Trip
- Bruce started the tradition after adopting Dick of going out camping one weekend every summer to try and have a more "normal" family bonding thing
- Yes, it is mandatory for all members of the family, even those not currently living in the manor
- It is universally hated by all the children except Cass, she thinks it's so fun
- Everyone except Dick, Damian, and Cass are all city kids and prefer it that way, thank you very much
- Dick was so excited the very first trip and that excitement lasted until approximately one hour into trying to set up the tent (it took nearly two hours total), he's dreaded it every year since but won't say anything bc it makes Bruce so happy
- Damian thinks it's unnecessary and uncivilized to sleep on the ground for no purpose other than "fun" (he fails to see what's so fun)
- Alfred never goes on this trip, he does a bunch of the packing and prepping and then pushes them all out the door with their bags, Bruce asked if he wanted to come the first year and Alfred said a very polite and British version of "fuck no" and he enjoys his annual weekend off
- Barbara was also invited but refused, saying she wasn't technically part of the family and therefore didn't have to go
- (Steph tried using the same technicality, but was outvoted by Tim, who wants her to suffer with them, and Cass, who gave her puppy dog eyes, nobody was brave enough to argue with Barbara)
- There are three tents: Steph and Cass in one, Bruce, Dick, and Damian in one, and Jason, Tim, and Duke in one
- Jason has a scar of his shoulder from the time they tried fly-fishing and Tim's hook got hooked on Jason and Jason will never let him forget it
- There is a ban on any kind of traps or hunting after Duke got stuck in a net Damian set up to "protect" them from bears
- Tim and Dick always struggle to open the bear-proof trashcans
- Every single one of them hates hiking except for Jason, but all of them are too prideful to ever admit it so they all suffer through at least two hikes each trip
- Cass' favorite activity is swimming in the nearby lake, it's always refreshing and there's lots of little fish swimming around
- Bruce made them go geocaching one year and they split into two groups to compete and both groups got horribly lost
- Damian hates almost every part of the trip except each morning he wakes up really early and quietly sits at the edge of a nearby field to watch dear go through, his best memory was when they went in the spring one year and he got to see two fawns and their mothers
