Xavier Goes On A Real Vacation
Greetings to everyone.
Back in early May, we planned on attending a wedding of one of Xavier's cousins in Idaho. We scheduled the days off from work and rented a camper van. Our plan was to drive to Idaho in the van and attend the wedding, then spend three days in Yellowstone on the trip back.
Due to the insanity around the COVID pandemic, the wedding turned into an elopement, but we still had the time off and the van reserved. We decided instead of three days in Yellowstone, why not the whole ten days on a family vacation.
Xavier has wanted to do a camping trip for more than a year now, and we've had several backyard COVID camping experiences. Now was the time for a full-on real camping experience in the wild, with bears and lions and wolves, albeit a few tweaks due to various states' regulations to manage the spread of COVID.
We did not start planning our trip until two weeks before leaving. Rebecca called Yellowstone and got a campsite for two nights. That put a pin in our until then fluid plans. This morning, as we left, Rebecca called to see if we could extend our stay by a day. To our surprise, the answer was yes, albeit a different campsite.
We decided to start out in Thermopolis (our Yellowstone site was for Wednesday and Thursday). We spent two nights there splashing in the hot springs and visiting the dinosaur museum.
The museum was more than a journey to look at bones. We forgot to pack clean shirts for Xavier, so we hoped the gift shop would have something. PTL, it did, and the shirts had clearance prices!
You'll see in the days to come Xavier wearing his new shirts.