People ask one of two questions when I tell them we spend a couple of weeks at Yellowstone National Park earlier this summer. One is the inevitable “How was it?” The other question people ask first was a bit surprising.
“Did you camp?”
And this question was asked by people who know me, people who know how young our children are.
Now, I’m not saying it is impossible to camp in a tent with small children. What I want to impress on you the reader is the people asking know that not only do we have a 26 month old, a freshly minted 2 year old, one who is rather full-on in the throws of toddler-hood, but we have 4 other children with us ranging from the ages of 6 to 13. And on top of that, Laura is pregnant.
Who in their right mind would camp under those circumstances?
We rented a cabin outside of the park. In order for it to have enough space for us all at a price we could afford it wound up being a bit outside of the park. So much so it was an hour and a half minimum to get anywhere interesting inside Yellowstone National Park.
Thankfully everybody had their own bed.
What we would do is get up in the morning, drive into the park to wherever we were going, spend a few hours there, have lunch, sightsee some more, then come back to the cabin for dinner. Well, most of the time. There were a couple of nights we ate dinner in the park or in West Yellowstone, but mostly we ate dinner in the cabin.
And breakfast every morning.