You will notice no pictures were taken from inside the car on our 25 (really only 12) hour one way drive-no one needs to see the melt down of two grown adults and a 14 month old! Lets just say it was ugly. I am probably exaggerating slightly (no-not me!) we actually split the trip to Ohio from Georgia up by stopping at our "home" in Asheville. We were able to visit with our buddies and basically "get the hell out of that freakin car"-as I am sure Ryan would put it if she could talk. The following day we wanted to leave late so Ryan would sleep most of the trip-this is good in theory, the execution left a lot to be desired. We ended up getting in to the hotel room at 12:30am and the girl was suddenly wide awake. You HAVE to love the naive, idealistic notion we had in our heads of picking her up asleep out of her car seat, straight to the ready made crib in our room. Kinda cute for those experienced moms right? No such luck, however, we did have to unpack our lives, so she might as well have been awake. With the aversion to riding in the car aside, she became quite the experienced traveler on this trip-enjoying all the amenities the hotel had to offer-the pool of coarse, the continental breakfast, the extra rolls of toilet paper under the sink, the super soft cozy comforter that appealed to her much better than the crib, the vending machines..all of it. I think I even caught her calling downstairs for room service and helping out by walking up and down the hall providing wake up calls to all around us. Next thing you know it was time for us to load up and check out. Have you ever had the feeling of dying to get home, but dreading getting there...I wont go into details, but lets say it involved a major highway closing, a 3 hour detour, a monsoon through crazy traffic, a screaming child and suddenly a 8 hour drive turned in to 12. Yup-good times!By the way-the first picture is the two of them, in their church clothes after my dads service, eating Wendy's on the hotel bed-soooo classy!
