Island Park, here we come!

Monday, June 18

We were able to check in to the rental home anytime after 4:00 on Monday so we were hoping to hit the road around 11 a.m. (about a 5 hour drive from our house).  Trying to get everything packed and find room for all of the food we were bringing was quite a chore!  Plus, my family was planning on heading straight to Washington from Island Park to visit DH's parents.  So we had to pack for the Island Park/Yellowstone trip plus the Washington trip on top of that!  And then of course in the middle of all of that Tan's daughter, A, injured her arm while playing and wouldn't move it at all and anytime someone touched it she would start screaming.  Our hope was that she had just dislocated her elbow (nursemaid's elbow), but there was also a chance that it might be broken.  So her parents took her in to an urgent care center near our house and said they would keep us posted.  I think they were only gone for 45 minutes, maybe an hour and she was as good as new again.  Thankfully it was just the nursemaid's elbow and the doctor quickly popped it back in place, gave her a lollipop and then sent them on their way.  (They probably spent more time filling out paperwork than they did getting treated!)

So after that minor delay we ended up actually hitting the road around 12:30 and made it to the rental cabin around 5:30 or so.  And wouldn't you know it but when we finally figured out all of the directions and made it to our destination, the road to the cabin was closed - it was being dug up by a construction crew.  So we found another way around and still we couldn't get to the cabin.  The road was being worked on just right in front of the place we were staying at.  A neighbor 2 doors down came out and talked to us and DH's brother talked to the construction workers and they claimed they would be done the following day - just some routine road maintenance that just happened to be right in front of where we were staying.  And in the end we only parked in the driveway once while we were there.  The rest of the time we were parked down the road a little bit and had to hike it in with all of our gear...  And they still weren't finished completely by the time we left on Friday!