We went on vacation and had a lot of adventures, so there are going to be a lot of posts about vacation!
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| Brad our fearless driver |
We have spent the last few months talking about where and
when to go on vacation. We settled on the
end of July. We planned on going to
Niagara Falls, Connecticut to visit Brad's cousin (Amanda, Matt and Winston),
then to New Jersey to visit my friend Christina and her family, and then back
home.
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| Vince was the navigator for a good portion of the trip |
Our plan was to leave on a
Saturday around noon, but on Friday I decided 2 pm sounded better. But when I work on Thursday and Friday it
makes it really hard to pack and be ready to leave at a decent time on
Saturday. The fact that I needed to do a
few extra things like get shorts for myself (I thought having more than 2 pairs
would be helpful) and making sure everything was ready for our house sitter,
and running my last run in the couch to 5K program added to the giant list of
things we needed to do before we left.
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| Mommy and Cecilia |
We got on the road around 3pm, but better late than
never! We made it to about 1 hour east
of Cleveland, OH. It was a super easy,
peaceful drive! The kids slept part of
it, played with their toys for a little while, watched a movie, and we ate
dinner on the road. We spent the night
in a Home Depot parking lot. The great
news was it by a IHOP, Target, and Texas Roadhouse. Unfortunately we were too late for the Texas
Roadhouse. I was excited to go to IHOP
for breakfast and Brad and I needed to pick up a few things at Home Depot and
Target the next day.
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| Joel taking his turn as navigator! |
Since we were in a parking lot we couldn’t really put our
slide outs out. No big deal, but that
means there is no room for the pack n play and between that and not having a
safety bed rail for the top bunk bed (we moved it to the bottom for Joel). Brad and Vince ended up in the back bed,
Cecilia and I turned the table into a bed and Joel had a bunk bed to
himself. Until 5 am when he joined
Cecilia and I. Three people in a twin
sized bed is really not that comfortable.
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| Brad resting on the dinette bed...he is too tall for it |
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| Cecilia securing her corner of the bed |
Sleeping in the motorhome is always a challenge for Joel the
first night or two, so the night before
we left Joel and Brad camped in the shed.
Joel went right to sleep and had no problems. The first night on actual vacation didn’t go
as well. Joel wouldn’t stay in the
bottom bunk. We have a sliding door that
closes off the bunk area from the front of the motorhome (but there is probably
a 6-9 inch gap between the floor and the bottom of the door, so we closed that
door and waited to see what happened.
Brad told me that Joel could crawl under the door and he was right. As I sat at the table and watch Joel started
by getting out of his bed. Laying on the
floor and tapping his fingers on the floor on his side of the door.
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| The truck appears |
Then a truck was pushed under the door and
then Joel appeared. The second his
little head cleared the door he said
“hello!” Out of no where Brad was up and
on the floor in front of Joel telling him to go back and making him retreat the
same way he came out. It happened a few
times and then we started using Cecilia’s bumbo seat as a blockade. The whole episode only lasted 10 minutes and after a few nights Joel did much better. By the end of the trip he would just lay in bed talking to himself until he fell asleep. Vince was on the bunk above him and did such a great job ignoring Joel's antics.
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| Joel making his appearance |
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