Actually Enjoy Your Rocky Mountain Vaction With Your Family

Despite the love we hold for our families we must all admit that sooner or later, usually sooner, we manage to get on each other nerves, especially while cramped into a tiny rental car slogging through our Nations National Parks or other "boring" world renowned attractions. Face it, Yellowstone, Glacier, and Grand Teton National Parks are not Disney Land, while the scenic attractions may rival all that any other park, amusement or national, has to offer the excitement, or interest level seems to be a bit lower. Once children reach the age of 10 it is only a matter of time before everything becomes boring. With the wide choice of in-your-face Internet activities and give it to me now interaction services, Mother Nature seems slow to satisfy. You can tell your kids, wife, husband, whomever, that they are going to have fun and they won't, that is unless you, the ultimate vacation planner, are willing to follow some sound advice.

1. Put your own pleasures last. (You already picked the destination-consider that your first victory)

2. Use the Internet to make plans ahead of time. (When you arrive at Jenny Lake Campground and it's full calmly mention you will simply have to travel to the larger Colter Bay Campground a few miles up the road)

3. Allow several days for modern forms of entertainment. (Kids love things that move, flash, cost money, taste good, and otherwise annoy solace seeking adults)

4. Don't get upset if your travel companions aren't real excited about getting back to nature (kids, angry husbands, angry wives are not real interested in telling you when your right, or when they are actually starting to enjoy themselves)

5. Set your expectations low, your hopes high, and your temper even higher. (If you loose it and start telling everyone how pathetic they are you have lost the trip, you must keep your cool at all times)

I could go on and on, use your common sense.

Fly into Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Everyone loves Jackson Hole. A huge moose greets you at the airport. I have personally watched juvenile delinquents smile at the site of that moose. Rent your car (your over-sized, nicer than what you drive at home car)at the Jackson Hole Airport. Drive immediately to the Snow King Resort located in the heart of Jackson Hole, buy a 5 ride pass for the mountainside alpine slide. Let your husband go, encourage your wife to ride, make it a family event. Don't complain about the

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