House cleaning because while we are on vacation a friend & her 2 boys will be house sitting. Taking care of the pets- 3 cats & 1 red-eyed tree frog- and the house in general. She's thinking it'll be a vacation for her as well. BUT I refuse to let the house be messy before we go. So we are cleaning; imagine the old fashioned spring cleaning your grandma probably did. I defy anyone, including my mother, to find so much as a dust bunny in the rooms that we finished!
Shopping to get the needed items to make this vacation happen. Bear pepper spray (stay tuned for a blog about this topic), bathing suits, hiking stuff, SD cards for cameras, and general stuff.
So we've been very busy. In fact, I've been wondering who had the more difficult preparation: Lewis & Clark with their Corps of Discovery or our family. As a homeschooling family we decided to study Lewis & Clark in preparation for our trip west. It is one unit of history & a lot of geography! Yes L & C had to stock up on trinkets to trade with Indians (Native Americans) and yes they had no stores to visit for resupplying. Sure they had to hunt for their food, camp without warm sleeping bags or even tents. Yes they had to go where no White man had gone before- or at least mapped (I'll ignore the temptation to say something about men & maps). BUT did they have adolescents to keep happy for 10 hours a day in the car? Did they have to worry about where to charge appliances? Did they have to consider how to get home schooling done while on the road?
NO they didn't.
So I'm off to clean a bathroom and make a information sheet for the house sitter, consider what more we need to buy, and read another section of Easy Day Hikes in Yellowstone.
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