It’s Like Sputnik!

We have been roughing it in a cozy 5-person dome tent since we were married.  Last summer, it was getting a little crowded with our queen mattress, Kyla’s bed, the Pack-N-Play for Piper, and all the necessary gear needed when camping with youngsters.  Actually, we had no space on the floor to even walk, let alone room for our latest addition.  So, our latest addition  (Wesley)  prompted us to upgrade to the latest addition (the Montreaux).

It doesn’t take long on Amazon.com to find that the trend toward McMansions has also hit the REI crowd.  This 37 pound monstrosity measures

17.5 by 14 feet, the large Swiss Gear Montreaux Family Dome Tent will sleep up to ten people. It features a generous 177 square feet of space with sewn-in room dividers creating two distinct living areas and two side rooms with divider curtains for extra storage.

 

We think it will be big enough.  We hope the tent sites we are registered for this summer are also big enough.

The tent arrived late this afternoon, so after dinner we went down to the basement to set it up as a family.

It’s wasn’t so intimidating at first.

 

 

But as we spread it out, we had to move aside a few big pieces of furniture.  For those of you familiar with our basement, the door of the tent opened right next to the fire place, and the back reached almost all the way to the bar.  We were able to move one of the chairs enough to set up the west wing, but the east wing remains incomplete.

 

This girls were beside themselves with excitement and loved putting 16 poles together.

 

 

Someday, Son, all this will be yours (to set up).

 

Piper got lost in the west wing before it was fully constructed.

 

So just how tall is this tent?  Dwayne can’t quite touch the top.

 

This doesn’t even begin to give you a feel for the scope of this thing.  But it’s big.  Really, really big. 

 

Come camping with us this summer and get a tour.  We’ll be the tent that is set up partly in the road because the site isn’t big enough for us.  Just come in—we’re in the back and can’t hear the front doorbell.