ATTENTION: Trace, Mark, Rose, Mitch, Sam, Robyn, Ray, Nancy, Ollie, Cindy, Bill, & Ann
Teri here.
I'd really like to get feedback from my cousins with little kids about how they feel accommodations would work out if we're in a situation where the main meeting/activity area is in a separate building from our sleeping kids in the evening.
I said a little bit about this in my comments for Ray's post on the cruise ship. While I think that Robyn's camp would be awesome in SOO many ways, I also see either myself or Josh having to stay back with our kids from 6:30-7:00 on in order for the other parent to go and hang out with the adults and have a good time in whatever building the evening fun is taking place in.
I guess if we are in a situation where we're all spread out in different buildings one option would be to just get my kids to stay up later and go to bed with us around 11 or so, but I don't know if every one of us cousins with little ones would be down with this adjustment to their kid's schedule.
That all being said, the Gatlinburg cabins seem like the location where cousins with little kids who go to bed early would be able to participate in evening festivities without having to leave their kids and one parent in a separate building.
I'd love anyone's feedback or suggestions with this issue.
I'm on the phone with Robyn right now and she says that her Lodge building has 8 bedrooms with 8 bathrooms surrounding a big meeting room that they can put about 5 couches in. So if we used this room for our evening activities we could have all families with little kids staying each of these bedrooms. Between the 8 bedrooms in the lodge (nice kitchen in the lodge with a porch overlooking the lake and rocking chairs) along with their 4 leadership cabins AND the cottage that can house pets we should be good at the camp. Problem solved.
That's really 13 separate bedrooms total. ALL adult cousins (besides Aunt Lori's crew) could stay in the Lodge, Aunt Lori and her crew could be in the 3-bedroom leadership cabin along with Uncle Al, Aunt Carol, Jen, and Kristi in a Leadership cabin that sleeps 4, and everyone else either in the remaining two leadership cabins or the cottage. Odds are that there will be a bedroom in the lodge that won't be taken by one of the cousin families because they can't make it.
THOUGHTS???? PLEASE let us know what you're thinking.
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Yes, I think I would prefer to have the "hangout" place in the same location as where my kids are sleeping...and they do go to bed early. Thanks, Theresa
ReplyDeleteKatie stays up until about 10 and has stayed up until midnight (I know, I get the bad dad award). Not knowing exactly how she will react to traveling in general (we've had one good 5 hour drive to Mackinaw City and one horrific shorter drive back from Chicago) I assume that if she's difficult I'll just be there to take care of the situation. Having her in the same area could be good but not necessary. It might even be counter-productive if there is a lot of noise to keep the kids awake. I don't want to put her in the next county, but we've got a monitor...so I'm not as concerned about this issue. Someone will have to watch her, keep her occupied and if that means that I can't play cribbage or something, that's ok. She probably won't sleep well in an unfamiliar place without one of us being there anyway so it doesn't matter if it is close or not.
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