Its true, our planned holiday of flying to Las Vegas, renting a car, and toodeling around for 3 weeks went into the trash! It happened when we were all in line ready to fly when the westjet looks at me and says 'did you know your passport is expired?'..i was hoping it was a sick joke--you know, some westjet employees like to joke...they are encouraged to do that--but i thought 'lame joke man, not funny....got 2 toddlers here....not funny'
Turns out when we did get our passports, it was when Isaac was in my belly and we jetted off to Mexico...yup, that would have been over 5 years ago! So, we looked at eachother and panicked for a moment and then thought 'breathe......everything happens for a reason'
So, we tried to sort out the passport thing, it was not going to work....so we were all packed anyways---marg and gordon were both down in victoria thankfully at the same time (marg was set to take our van back home for the month!!)--so we threw our back bench of the van into Gordons little car, hugged them goodbye, and off we went--on an unknown holiday!
We have really had a great time....the kids travel well thankfully. We took the Oregon Coast down and are currently in Windsor California at a really great resort where the kids will have their own room, we had a rotisserie chicken dinner with carrots, asparagus, roast sweet potatoes......we have been trying to eat in as much as possible in the evening since we are all so tired, and lets be honest, dinner out with 2 tired toddlers really sucks and its expensive if they don't eat what you make. At least tonight, i spent $20 at safeway, loved the dinner and didn't really care what they ate (they ate alot btw-which rocked). (and as another side note, there has been NO fastfood stops along the way.....its a new goal to snack and eat well as much as its a bother to continually stop at grocery stores enstead of driving through somewhere....but i am hoping the end goal is that we will all stay healthy and feel well)
We are hoping to relax this weekend a little bit since this last week has been alot of driving.....i pretty much know all the words now to Wall-E and Peter Pan....not sure why they love those 2 so much, but its been 3 days of rotating between those ones!
I fell asleep sitting up this afternoon, and chris made fun of me when i woke up saying 'who am i?' and then he does this snort, a huge body spaz, and smacks his hand against the window--i figured it was me since i didn't know why my hand hurt.......
Each night we have been taking the boys swimming before bed, but i think that riles them up more than calms them down, so right now, the 3 of them are curled up in front of the fire watching Fievel goes west.
We have seen some really cool things since we have been on this trip down the Oregon Coast--we drove it on our honeymoon, but it was all fogged in so it's crazy to see what we all missed!! We checked out the Sealion Caves in Oregon, drove through a big tree (i thought that was sketch...but somehow we made it through with no scratches), the weather was hot and gorgeous so we played on the beach over these amazing sand dunes...we were the only ones on there!! It's been so fun!
The hotels have been really beautiful too...right on the water both nights, breakfast, internet, pool, and under $100 including tax (our 4 requirements) - we come in and the price has been double what we end up negotiating to (so we either look pathetic, or really, we just needed to ask and tell them our budget--either way, its been pretty easy to stick within our daily budget this last week).
So, thats the update til now, we aren't sure if we are going to head to the Grand Canyon anymore, part of me still would like to, so we'll see what happens in the next few days...but this weekend isn't for driving, its for chilling out and relaxing after a nutty week! Ciao!
