Road Trip

After taking our time and aiming for "fun stops" last year, we all agreed that we'd rather push through and just get back to Andover in as few days as possible.  When we left Lander on Monday 8/18/14, we figured we'd get back mid-day on Thursday 8/21/14, but we had some hope that Wednesday evening was possible.  With no major traffic delays and only a little bit of rainy weather, we actually made it in three days and were back in our Andover home by 8:30pm on Wednesday 8/20/14.

Monday night we stopped at the New Victorian Inn in York, NE.  Tuesday night we stopped at a Comfort Inn in Toledo, OH.  Indoor pools for the kids and pizza both nights, and a 7am start each morning.  

Corbin did most of the driving, but I took about a 3ish hour shift each day.  We played some "musical chairs" with the seating in the truck, just to mix it up.  While there was certainly a good amount of being plugged into a device, we also had a few good conversations and laughs as a family.  Margaret spent some time each day reading to Corb and me, while the boys were listening to their own audiobooks and podcasts.  The one big "treat" of the trip was that I read "Wonder" to the whole family.  We read a couple of times each day and finished the book as we exited off the Mass Pike on Wednesday.  It was a great book, and everyone was fully engaged.  Overall, it was a pretty darn good family road trip!

Human pyramid at one of the hotel indoor pools.

Cute Pillows