Staycations are nice. Everyone sleeps in their own beds, you don't have to buy ice every day, it's cleaner, and we don't all have to go to bed at the same time. There's time to enjoy a summer night in the backyard after the kids are in bed, there's space for separate read aloud stories for each child, there's room for everyone's suggestions to happen.
We went out to dinner when we came home from camping and then laid out our schedule for the week:
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| Tuesday: Kung Fu Panda Matinee movie and evening mini golf. |
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| Wednesday: Pirate's Cove Waterpark. The trick is to go before all the day camps start. |
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| Thursday: The warmest day. So we went swimming at our local pool and had A&W root beer floats after dinner. |
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| Friday: A trip to the nickel arcade and then Krispy Kreme for National Donut Day. |
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| Saturday: Hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. |
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| We hiked through snow (!) to Alberta Falls. |
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| and enjoyed a walk around beautiful Sprague Lake. |
We ate the food we'd intended to eat if we'd been camping and we only spent the cash we had on hand so there are no vacation bills to pay. (We pocketed the extra to pay for a car repair.) We read books on the lawn, worked in the yard a little, stretched out that camping laundry all week long, and just relaxed. Sunday was kept for doing nothing, our tradition of transitioning back into regular life. We did still clean up the house and do a little bit of work, but because we left town at the beginning and the end it still felt like a vacation.
Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons will always be there. We just know to go at the end of summer now. So, August 2012 you'll find us there.
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