This year though with airplane tickets being so ridiculous, we decided to drive. Our trip was going to be 18+ hours in the car. I was excited and terrified at the same time. Haylie does ok with long rides, Jace however, does not. And there really are not a lot of options for him for travel toys since he is at that awkward stage - all he wants to do is throw stuff. Anyway, I got some things together for both kids - one of which I made this travel book for Haylie. I thought she would love following our trip with a map, and some page-protected pages with dry erase crayons. It went over okay - she liked it but mostly just scribbled circles on the pages. Whatever makes her happy!!
Since we were travelling so far, we rented a mini-van so we didn't put all those miles on ours. It was worth EVERY PENNY. It was a smoother ride, it had a DVD player (utilized most of the time!) and had lots of plug ins and storage for our cross-country trip. We fell in love with this car and were a little sad to return it!
We had good moments and rough moments. Going there, Jace cried hysterically about every 2 hours. He was so sad to be strapped in his car seat and nothing seemed to help except to get it out of his system. We stopped a few times to stretch - our last fill up was 1:45 AM in Birmingham, AL...needless to say it was not a great area. After that, both kids fell asleep until about 7 or so - and the moment Jace woke up, he realized he was still in that dang carseat and let us know his thoughts about it.
Since we were travelling so far, we rented a mini-van so we didn't put all those miles on ours. It was worth EVERY PENNY. It was a smoother ride, it had a DVD player (utilized most of the time!) and had lots of plug ins and storage for our cross-country trip. We fell in love with this car and were a little sad to return it!
We had good moments and rough moments. Going there, Jace cried hysterically about every 2 hours. He was so sad to be strapped in his car seat and nothing seemed to help except to get it out of his system. We stopped a few times to stretch - our last fill up was 1:45 AM in Birmingham, AL...needless to say it was not a great area. After that, both kids fell asleep until about 7 or so - and the moment Jace woke up, he realized he was still in that dang carseat and let us know his thoughts about it.
After a breakfast stop, I finished up the driving and got us to "the edge" as Haylie calls it.
First sights over the causeway. Welcome to Ocean Isle, NC.
Let the week begin!!
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Wow, you guys are brave! At least you had a comfortable car.
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