Traveling

Several have asked how the kids traveled for our trip to Alabama!

On the way there they were amazing! I even told my father-in-law that, "Your grand kids are amazing." Apparently he already knew!

Seriously though, on the 16 hour drive down, they were great. We left after church (remember 2 church services) on Sunday and drove 8 hours to Columbia Tennessee with only 1 stop. Between the Ruffer baskets (thank you so much Ralph and Cathy for thinking of our trip when buying Christmas gifts for our kids), the games I had found online, naps and the portable DVD player (which was only used 1 time the whole 16 hours down); the kids were great. We stayed in the same hotel with Dad and Mom and my brother and his family. So we were all together traveling down on Monday. Not necessarily following each other, but relatively close. It's hard to caravan when you are working with 6 bladders in one vehicle!

The trip back seemed much longer than the 930+ miles it took to get there, but honestly - they still did great.

There were several more, "how much longer?" and "are we close to stopping?" and lots more

yawns

There were also few dull moments! (that's not always good though)

There were smiles

Learning times

Fake smiles between cries We used the DVD player much more than the trip down, but other than that, we made it.

But one thing remained constant. Our amazing driver did a fantastic job. He drove the entire 1870+ miles down and back! And I think he is still sain!

So, how did we travel?

We did ok, but I wouldn't want to take another trip that far -

at least not this month :)