The second to last day of our vacation, my wife and I came to the same realization just about the same time. We packed, unpacked, and slept in too many beds this vacation. I use the term 'beds' loosely as there were some nights we were on an air mattress. So, how many beds you ask? In the ten days that we were gone, we slept in five different beds. Why so many? Let me explain.
We left Minnesota Friday night after work. Our plan was to drive half way home that night and finish the trip on Saturday morning and afternoon. It takes about nine to nine and a half hours to drive home if you drive straight through. We have done that drive numerous times since moving to Minnesota. It's nice to get home in less than ten hours. So we drove to Green Bay (the half way point) after work and stayed the night in a hotel. Bed one.
After we got to Michigan on Saturday, we spent the weekend with my family. We have started to do family gatherings during the summer. We use to do a big family party at Christmas time, but with all the grandkids growing up and moving all around the country, it makes it easier to get more people together during the summer time. My entire immediate family was staying at the cabin. With my sister and brother having kids, they stay in the cabin and my wife and I stay in the loft above the garage. Funny thing though. The bed in the loft is two twin beds. Yeah....yeah. My wife and I joked about this song that SNL did a few years ago. Side note: can we talk about how hilarious the women of SNL are? Not only did we joke about that song, we also joked about the episode of 'How I Met Your Mother' where Marshall and Lily go to a bed and breakfast and accidentally book a room with two twin beds and have the best sleep they had in years. So, bed two.
After the weekend, we drove to our hometown and stayed with my in-laws. We were going camping for three days starting on Tuesday. We had to find a bed to stay in Monday night. We debated back and forth. Their pop up camper was open because we still needed to pack food and all that. The other option was to blow up an air mattress and stay in the basement. We went with option one. We stayed in the pop up. Mainly because we didn't want to unpack and pack the air mattress. So we stayed the night in the camper. Bed three.
Because the pop up camper is small for five people, we brought a tent so my wife and I stayed there for the camping trip while my parents in-law and brother in-law stayed in the camper. We brought the air mattress because who wants to sleep on the ground? Or so I'm told. We slept on the air mattress for the three days. Bed four.
Back at home after the camping trip we continued to sleep on the air mattress in the basement in my in-laws house. No new bed. The bed count in still at four.
For the last night, we went down to the cabin to see my family one more time. By this time, my sister and family had moved down to Missouri so there was an open bed in the cabin. This was our last night of vacation, and needed as much sleep as possible as we were driving back to Minnesota the next day. A little problem though. The room we were staying in was so hot that I couldn't sleep. I got up in the middle of the night and slept on the couch downstairs. It was much cooler and I got a few hours of sleep. My brother, sister in-law, and niece were up at around 4:30 to fly back to Seattle, so we were up to say goodbye to them. We then went back to sleep after they left and got a few more hours of sleep. That was bed number five.
While it was a very nice vacation and very relaxing, it was extremely choppy because of all the packing and unpacking as we moved from place to place and bed to bed. Normally when we go home, we stay at either one of the parents' house or split the time between the two families. So at most we sleep in two beds. By the time we got back to Minnesota, I felt more tired than when we left. Maybe it has something to do with all the different beds? Who knows.
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