The 7 hour drive

This is not the first time we have taken a trip this long. We have traveled to Pennsylvania several times to visit my family, but this is the first time we left at 3:30 in the morning! It was a great plan, and we will probably do it again for such a long trip. The plan was for the kids to go back to sleep once we got them in the car, but of course that didn't happen. This was taken at about 5:30 am, when I finally gave up on them going back to sleep.

They were so tired, but were just too excited to get to sleep - they did take a good nap once we got to the beach. We got to Dad's house to drop Lucy off at about 7:00 and then it was on to the beach. Poor Lucy barely has any room in the car ... I'll bet she missed the minivan!

I do have to say, the kids were VERY well behaved, like they never are in the car, and the trip went really well. I am really glad I stopped at Dollar Tree for these Shrek coloring things. They worked on those for at least an hour.

Kathryn does have issues with using markers, though, and as usual was completely covered. And I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but black "washable" markers are not actually washable.