Monday, July…25?, 2016 – Rapid City, SD More miracles this trip! We awakened around 8 am! Us and the kids. We aren’t sure what magical combination of events led to this, but we suspect a combination of running them ragged in the pool last night and more importantly, placing them in the room in the suite that has no window and is pitch black. Matt gathered some continental breakfast wares for us (fruit loops, unflavored donuts (strangely not bad), bananas,…
And the saga continues… Friday, July 21, 2016 – Yellowstone, day #3 The day began just a tad later than planned (note: every day begins the same way). We had planned to leave between 6:30 and 7 and left around 7:15, so that isn’t bad. Of course, the kids slept in again. I mean, seriously? The plan was to drive to Mount Washburn, and hike up the trail that Sarah had read about in her bible, and in the “warning”…
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016 – Bozeman, MT to Gardiner, MT (Yellowstone!!) This morning we woke up and no one felt well. Sarah has had “allergies” since entering North Dakota (or as Matt says, a severe sinus infection since Minnesota) and finally took some pills from Nic last night to help. She woke up in the morning feeling less congested and like she could fly. Meanwhile, Zoe opened the other two pills and sucked on them until she realized they didn’t taste…
Hello and welcome to this year’s installment of the S and M family trip! Note we are now on the internet and trying to avoid anything that might ID us for who we really are. Except for the pictures. Gotta have pictures! Anyway, thanks for visiting our blog. This was created a week ago by Matt while Sarah surfed on the Internet and watched The Rock, among other unhelpful things. We are a family that does family-type things, most of…
Saturday, July 16, 2016 – Waupaca WI to Fargo ND Welcome to the annual S and M family trip! Aw, it’s been so long (one year). We are very excited to be traveling to Yellowstone National Park this year. Everyone except Sarah, as she lost in her bid to go to Glacier NP yet again with a 4-1 vote (seriously, how can a 2 year old even vote??). Last night was a whirlwind of packing and scrambling to get everything done. …
August 16, 2015 (Sunday??) – In Bozeman We awoke after a peaceful night of sleep. Due to Zoe not having ice cream? Or that she recognizes on some level that the C’mon Inn is truly heaven on earth? We shall see. The continental breakfast was eh, except for the conveyor belt pancakes, still delicious. We set out for the Museum of the Rockies – rated the #1 thing to do in Bozeman by tripadvisor, and we would agree. This museum…
Well, trip followers and e-mail hackers, our last few days wound down at Glacier National Park. This has been fantastic and we do hope to come back and do some back country camping without the kids… If only we knew people who might want to watch them! Despite anything you read here, they are delicate little angels and a joy to take care of. August 13, 2015 – Still in Glacier – Full Day #3 Today we had planned to…
The saga continues. We are still feeling smug, maybe not QUITE as much before as our children are acting like wildebeests, and we are getting looks from people. But still no major disasters! Okay, onward… August 10, 2015 Great Falls, MT to St. Mary, MT (and for all intensive purposes, Glacier National Park! Hoot hoot!) We awoke after a night of listening to Zoe scream for unclear reasons. We even did all our parental tricks on her – gave her…
Hello friends and family… We wanted to send e-mails every so often on this trip – partially because we don’t post on Facebook during trips for the most part (lest burglars figure out we are across the country), and partially so this can be a record of our trip!
7/11/12 Started the morning a little later by bribing the kids with granola bars and Bubble Guppies on an iPhone (how did parents do these trips without technology?). Our Rapid City exploration began at Storybook Island, a free park full of characters from all of the old childhood stories which we realized that we hadn’t been telling our kids and don’t remember. Sarah went there on a family trip and hated it back then, but thought it was because she…