Vacation!!

The Kamnikar's are on "b-cation" as M says. Friday we were on the road by 3pm and the girls were asleep by 3:10pm. M slept for an hour and a half, L for 2 hrs and Mommy for an hour - it was great! Then I moved into the middle seat of the van and sat inbetween the girls to help referee, supply drinks out of the cooler and pick up toys dropped/thrown on the floor. We packed PB sandwhiches, grapes, and yogurt for supper to eat in the van. We only stopped twice the whole way down - once in Kadoka to gas up/potty break and once in Cheyenne to gas up. As we left earlier this trip we actually saw some of the Black Hills - M & I enjoyed the scenery; L we tried to entertain with anything we could think of. Finally around 9pm (our time) it started getting dark enough the girls could sleep - so I crawled back in the front and we got them their blankets but it was after 10pm when they finally settled down. Poor L did NOT like being buckled up and started crying a few times in her sleep when she tried to stretch out and realized she couldn't. But they did both sleep, Dad got to listen to the whole Cubs game and we pulled in town and crawled in bed a 1am.

The girls actually slept in Saturday morning and by the time they woke up T & I felt like we had gotten a whole nights sleep (our normal 6 hrs). It rained quite a bit on the way down and continued raining most of the day Sat. so we all piled in the van (G&G, Chris, and the 4 of us) and went to the mall. We had the coveted Chik-fil-a for lunch and took the girls to the playland to burn off some energy. Then back to G&G to discover all their toys, watch some Olypics and off to bed.

Sunday was a big day. We all piled in the van and drove to Denver and met Jeanne, Al & the kids at the zoo. M & Alex had a lot of fun but L did NOT want to ride in the stroller and didn't want to walk (or wear shoes to walk) and didn't want to be carried upright - she preferred upside down or sideways. What she really wanted to do was sit on the front bar of the stoller standing on her head playing with the buckles - not exactly safe but it kept her happy for a brief moment. The highlight was the baby giraffe - so cute, everyone slowed down to look! We took all the kids on the train and the carousel and after 3 hours the adults had had enough and were ready to move on. Thankfully L fell asleep on the way to Jeanne's so I sat in the van while she napped. The 4 cousins had a great time playing together - they are finally all old enough to play together (although Emily kept calling L "baby"). After a very nice supper we headed out and watched a movie on the way back to Ft. Collins. We had to let M watch the rest of her movie with Aunt Chris and L burn off some steam before heading to bed - Mom had had it and fell asleep on the couch shortly after the girls were in bed. I figured I deserved it if I had gotten up at 6:30am for a walked before everyone's day had even started. I hope the rest of the trip isn't as exhausting :-)