We got a small taste of the, “Oh man, what were we thinking!?” today. It was a LONG day in the car but we covered about 680 miles.

The boys slept pretty well in the trailer, and we were on the road at 7:30am. We lost yet another hour to time zone/DST and so the day was shorter. We didn’t stop for the day until just after 9:00PM. The issue with this is the hustle to get setup and get the boys cleaned and ready for bed. The seat time has been long and they have not had as much time as we would like for them to run and play.

Overall the boys have been amazingly patient and well behaved. The meltdowns tonight at bedtime were epic, but they were beyond tired.

They each took a short nap in the car at different times. Trevor fell asleep first:

Brendan had to wear his headphones so as not to wake Trevor.

Oops, he has seen this movie too many times.

We are staying with friends tonight in Missouri and then spending the day with them tomorrow. It is a beautiful place for the boys to run and play hard all day before the last leg of the driving adventure.

I am very proud of the two little boys who rode so perfectly in the car for such a long day. They played LOTS of iPad and really enjoyed the new apps I loaded.
They were up at 5:30am to get loaded in the car, we were driving down the road before 6:30am, they did not nap at all!
When we got in to Tucumcari, NM it was late and they were tired and Trevor was hungry so it was a bit of a rush this evening. We lost an hour to time change too.

I only have a couple of photos from stops along the way.

I circled the dot that is Bill chasing the dot that is Brendan as he tries to run away at his top speed.

Trevor just wanted to dig dirt and rocks

This storm full of lightning and heavy rain went alongside us but not over us as we did the last 100 miles.

We probably were lucky today, the novelty of the trip kept the boys happy, I didn’t even need to dig in to the goody bag of stuff much. Tomorrow I think will be more challenging because they will be tired of driving! Over 600 miles to do tomorrow!

Happy happy happy birthday to Bill today! The boys had better be good to him again tomorrow!

In a matter of hours, we will be on the road! EEK!

We owe a huge thanks to Jonah, Christine, and Johnathon for bringing over pizza and helping with the last minute preparations. Christine got an unexpected shower when she offered to give Trevor a bath – and then he ended up having two baths because the first one wasn’t silly enough.

Thanks Mary Alyn for coming in super early to manage Li’l B for the evening!

Brendan approved of dinner, he licked the sauce off of two pieces of pizza!!

Trevor already discovered that I loaded some new apps for the road trip. He doesn’t miss much.

He also had an epic fit when he found the goody bags I was putting together for the road and then I wouldn’t let him open the stuff. You just can’t explain that it will all be his in time.

Here’s an assault of Brendan cuteness with some of his new sounds:

We hope to be able to update along the way, but I have no idea what internet access will be available.