On the road to Orlando.

We had planned to get on the road by 2 PM. As always, it took much longer than expected to get everything packed up. We got on the road about 5 PM. Drove straight through to Albuquerque. We thought traveling at night would be easier as the kids should sleep most of the time. This worked really well! The first night they were occupied with snacks and a dvd. We had rented a van for the drive and it had a built in dvd player. Then they both crashed around 8. This was the best night of the entire trip.

Cameron actually did really well on the drive. Mostly because we let him play games on David's old iphone. He would have ridden in the car forever! It actually ruined him because for our first couple of weeks in Orlando every time we got in the car he would ask what he could do...then suggest playing games.

We stopped in Albuquerque that first night because we were so tired! The hotel was pretty nasty and with 2 kids we couldn't wait to get out of there. It delayed us getting to David's parents a bit. We were never so happy to have a shower and get out of the car.

While in Dallas, we celebrated Cameron's birthday (his real birthday was the weekend we were there). We went to Chucky Cheese and he got a birthday cake!

While there we had to update all the family photos.

 



We made the rest of the trip to Orlando with one more overnight stop...just a few hours from town.