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Grandma watched the kids for us after bathtime and before bedtime so we could pack up all our stuff for the journey home in the morning without kids underfoot...Had to take a pic of the big boy when I woke him up in the morning since the packnplay might not make the journey this summer...

Caught some morning snuggles while Mike packed the van in the morning...he is a rockstar!

Carter played with some of the guys he won't see again til the summer...

We stopped at the rest stop we stopped at on the way up and had a much better visit...on the way up Carter ate a Nathan's hotdog and proceeded to get sick everywhere after eating it...yummy... :) So this was a much better visit and we steered clear of Nathan's....

We are grateful that our kids enjoy traveling....hopefully they always will and we can go on lots of adventures as a family! As soon as M got in the car in RI she wanted to know when we would be going through the tunnel...she was so excited to go through it again...it was 3 hrs from our house...We told her it would be about 10 hrs and close to bedtime when it was dark when we would go through it...she asked a couple times throughout the day when we would see it (not too often to drive you batty though)...it was so neat to see the excitement on her face when we got to it at 8:10pm...such joy! Carter was excited too! After going through it they both went right to sleep...one day waiting 10 hrs for a tunnel won't be such a highlight...love seeing the world through the eyes of a child...

My traveling companions....there are no 3 people I would rather spend 14 hrs in the party van with! :)

Love to hear them playing in the back seat...beautiful thing about vans...the kids aren't close enough to bother each other, but they can play...we did lots of different things on our way home...watched 2 movies on the laptop and listened to lots of different types of music (each person having a turn to play DJ for a bit)...A special thanks to MiMi who gave us 2 stockings with little treats and toys to pass out to keep spirits up along the journey...

Mike got a clip of the kids playing...He was the go-to-man for the journey and I drove...he read books to the kids, doled out items, switched up the movies and music...good times... :)