In May Madison had a class he had been wanting to take, and lucky for us the closest one was in Alburquerque, which just happens to be where my brother Aaron moved to in January. So road trip here we come!!! It all turned out suprisingly well. It was the longest trip to date with the girls, but they are such good car riders.....if there is a movie playing. The favorite for this trip was Annie and Bridge to Terebithia.
We loaded the girls up early....still in pj's and we were off. Lucky for us East Texas has some really nice rest stops with playgrounds. How great is that. We stopped off to potty, change into day clothes, a few times down the slides and back in the car.
Madison had me take a picture of this. He found it ironic that a Little Giant ladder is on top of a Mini Coupe.
After a long, but not bad day, we finally got out of Texas.....You can drive in Texas forever it seems before you reach the end of it! Whew!
When we got there, the girls were so excited to see their Paran Aaron....aka Pan!
He and Truly usually tease each other, but she was just tickled to be with him again.
Maisy and her Daddy on her first mountain hike
Well from the look on Truly's face we didn't really make it up the mountain because Truly was having none of it. We barely made it to the base.
So, since we didn't make the hike successfully, Pan treated us to a tram ride up the mountain. It was awesome up there!
Finally a smile on Truly's face
Oh, and look another one here too. Maybe it would be great if we could come back in the winter and use the ski lifts for real???
Friday morning was the first day of Madison's class, and me and the girls walked Madison to the hotel. We hung out for a while waiting for the smoothie shop in the lobby to open.
Pan headed to work and me and the munchkins hung out at his place. They wanted to have a picnic, so we went out on the balcony of the apartment and had a wonderful peanut butter and jelly lunch with cheetos. yummy. Even Monkey had a place at the table.
Between the time change and too many days of being away from home, the girls finally crashed.....whew boy did they need it!
For being a desert, we actually had some sort of shower 3 out of the 4 days we were there. This was the worst and was a pretty nasty hail storm.
Saturday, Pan treated us again. He first took the girls to a really cool park where they had a blast.
Then, it was off to the Children's museum. It was great fun until Truly decided she was way due for a nap and pitched a fit unlike any other....it was so bad her Pan had to leave us for a while....he's not so used to kids in the overly tired two year old phase....but honestly neither was I. It was grade A awful. I literally had to hold her down in my lap until she just passed out when we got back to Aaron's apartment.
The next day was Mother's Day and we had to head home. We were up and on the road early again. The older two passed out not long into the drive, but Maisy who had been sleeping well while away was up playing most of the trip. We made it to Fort Worth just at dinner time and stopped at a barbeque place for dinner. This is me and the girls waiting on our table.
This picutre was not from the trip, but a couple of days before we left. The girls had made Mother's Day gifts for me at school and Madison took a picture of them showing them off.
It was a quick, but really nice trip. The next day, back to work:(
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