Geared-up

We are getting geared-up for summer camping. It's time for some upgrading. It's crazy to think we need a bigger tent already with only one small child, but since she'll need to sleep in a pack-n-play (which we also recently bought), an upgrade was inevitable. It's like a chain effect. After many days and hours of research, we finally settled on a tent for us.

The Swiss Gear St. Alban Family tent is 11' x 14' and about 6' tall. We found this brand (Swiss Gear/Wenger) to have the better reviews on waterproof, stability, and durability in this price range. At $144 on amazon, we feel like we made a good choice.

We almost went with a 16' x 10' tent with 2 rooms, but decided since it was longer than our living room, we wanted to shoot for a tent that might not be as difficult to find a camping spot for. Besides it's a little embarrassing to have such an enormous tent for only 3 campers. At 11' x 14', ours is not much smaller (in fact our living room is about 13' x 15'), but I hope the 2' knocked off the end will help. I would have liked to have a room divider, but we weighed the options and this one won. We also like this one because the walls are straighter up. The dome sized ones felt A LOT smaller even at the same dimensions and you could only stand straight up in the very middle. Lame. Maybe we could even use this tent as a day area for playing card games and avoiding bugs.

Now we're excited to get a sleeping bag for Avery when it's back in stock and I've got my eye on a hanging tent fan/light that would be so cool if we ever feel the need to splurge on that (which shouldn't be soon).

Happy Camping!