Road Trip

After a great week with friends we loaded up the car for an epic road trip. We are going to Minnesota to meet our nephew Milo, then on to Indiana to get our house issue straight and see a lot of friends and family. We set out Sunday morning at about 9 AM after dropping Jesse, Carly, and Ian at the airport for their Euro Trip. They always have to one up us. The trip out here to Minn. was surprisingly easy. We stopped every 2-3 hours and the boys got to watch a bunch of movies on the way. The first night we stopped in Bozeman MT and Finn was with me in one Queen sized bed and Henry was with Beautiful in the other. The second night we stopped in Fargo ND and we all piled in a King Size bed. We made it to Bloomington MN at about 2 PM just in time to see Grammie for an hour before she had to head back to Indy. We will see here again soon after one more day of driving, I hope the boys still have the good travel vibes going later this week when we head out.

cruisin like kerouac

It is quiet around our house now that Mark and Kendra are back home and we don’t have any future visits on tap until the middle of July. Around the middle of July though our summer gets fairly busy. We will have a bunch of guys I grew up with and their families here in the Northwest for some outdoor fun. Then We will head across the country for a road trip to Minnesota and then on to Indiana for Kate and the boys. When they get back the wedding season starts with back to back weddings to attend, fingers crossed for an open bar. I have been judiciously parsing out my vacation days to take part in as much as I can but Kate and the boys will be rocking the mid-west while I work, alone. Our housemates will be busy as well with their own trips to SB and Europe. It is exciting to think about the all the trips coming up and to plan out our road trip with the boys. I’m not sure how wise it is to take a 3 year old and 1 ½ year old on drive across the country but they need to learn what life in the Rohl and McGrail famlies are going to be like. This will not be their first road trip and it will definitely not be their last. Between Tear drop trips with papa and RV trips with Tom Tom those boys need to get acclimated to life on the road. Growing up I loved those trips and I have written about it before but the idea of getting up pre-dawn and heading out of town might be the most excited I ever get. I hope the boys will feel that way, that we will be able to pass on that love of the road that Kate and I have. It will just be easier on all of us.

On the Road

We left Wednesday night to go to the East coast for a wedding. Kate's friend Lisa is getting married and Kate is part of the festivities. Since Finn has a 6 hour traveling tolerance we thought leaving later in the evening and driving while he slept would be a good idea but Finn didn't sleep. After we stopped and checked into a hotel he still didn't sleep. He was like chipmunk on uppers he was so hyper. Like he chased his espresso with some redbull. He was throwing himself around the bed, getting up on his knees and waving his arms like crazy and then throwing himself down again. We put him in his crib and he screamed for 30 minutes, which is OK at home where we can hide him away in his room, but in a hotel room it really sucks. Not much sleep was had that night but he was a happy baby for the rest of the trip. We arrived in Sparta, NJ at 8:00 PM Thursday and today Kate is off with Lisa, Finn is with Grandma Kris and Heather to the Jersey Shore, and I am left to read in the shade on the back porch. I think we are all pretty happy with our respective days. Since there are no pictures taken left I give you Finn offering scout a drink from his sippy cup.