In the age of the GPS I don’t actually get that question very much. All my kids know how to look and see if the destination is showing on the screen – if it’s not, we’re not there yet.
Day 4
2065 miles down – 450 miles to go
Hotel living isn’t so bad if it’s a hotel like we stayed at last night.
No more hotels for a little while though, because we get to Grandpa’s tonight.
Day 3
1615 miles down – 900 more to go
Today was lots of this:
Day 2
840 miles down – 1685 more to go…
We got into the hotel REALLY late last night so we slept in a bit this morning and got started a little later than we wanted. The kids don’t mind though.
Today was the official start of our vacation! So after getting the car all packed and ready to go, there was just a little matter of mandatory fun for work first – the annual pig roast. We had a little lunch,
saw some wildlife (if only I’d brought the better camera with the telephoto lens),
and watched/played a little volleyball.
With the obligations out of the way we got on the road. Before we got too far we came upon someone who was having a REALLY bad day.
The car fire was so hot it felt like it would melt the windows when we drove passed, and emergency crews arrived the same time as us (everyone was okay).
Turns out we were taking our trip the same weekend as the Sturgis Rally – we saw a lot of this.
We are home from our action packed trip. One full day in the car and we got to Yakima to stay with Nate again. Then ALL of us came home today. All the visiting was a good time, but it’s nice to be home, especially since Nate is now home too.
I also accomplished something today I’ve never done before in my life….got back from our trip and within 2 hours EVERYTHING was unpacked and put away.
We got to Grandmas after a looonnnggg day in the car. Somehow Solvei kept herself awake for the entire car trip. When the videos were playing she was watching and when there weren’t videos (and the big kids were sleeping) Solvei and Nels took turns yelling at each other.
Everyone was happy to have arrived and not just because there’s all new stuff to play with, although that made things extra fun. Solvei and Saedi found Grandma Lori’s hats and wore them whenever they could (since this post is written in retrospect I can say the hats are in many pictures throughout the trip). Nels found Grandmas toys and couldn’t even be bothered to get pictures taken with everyone else because he was too busy playing. So here are a few pictures of the morning after we arrived sans Nels.
Today was Saedi’s last day of school!
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