Road Trip

Alex is on her first American "road trip".  We loaded up the car on Sunday morning to drive down to Jeff's mother's home in Florida to stay for a few days over Spring Break.  After a long day of driving in heavy traffic and more that one Interstate parking lot we arrived at our destination 11 hours after we began what should have been a 9 hour trip.  Jeff didn't come with us as he needed to stay home for work, so it was just me and the kids.  Alex actually chose to ride in the back seat the entire way so she could watch movies on the DVD player with R&M.  I have a car that has a third row that can be used as storage or as additional seating.  For the most part R sat in the third row while A&M sat in the middle row.  At one point they decided it would be fun if all three of them sat together in the middle row.  That lasted about an hour.  :)

On Monday we went to the beach.  We got there early enough that we were able to carve our a piece of real estate close to the water, but it wasn't long before the beach was jam packed.  The water was cold, but all three kids ended up swimming a bit.  I chose to keep my toes on dry sand.  :)  R&M spent a lot of time building a sand castle with several other kids and Alex spent some time just catching some rays.  One very, very cool part of the beach trip was when three dolphins came very close to shore.  A&M got incredibly close to them (within 10 feet) while R stayed back bit (maybe 20 feet).  The dolphins swam back and forth in front of the kids and about 100 other people for at least five minutes before heading back out to deeper water.  Even though I was just on the shore it was still an amazing thing to see.  After the trip to the beach we went back to Grammy's house for lunch then headed up to the pool.  We were all a little sun-sucked by the end of the day.

Today it rained all day so there was no beach or pool trip.  Instead we stayed home and made earrings with Grammy and two of her friends.  Alex' earrings turned out the best, of course!  I don't think there is anything she can't do well.  Afterward we went the the movie theater to see "Hop".  I wasn't exceptionally excited about it, but the kids were.  The kids all loved it, and I didn't hate it so I guess it was a win-win.

So far it has been a pretty good spring break.  We will head back to GA on Friday.  On Saturday my mom is hosting a "Welcome Home" party for my nephew who recently returned from Afghanistan.  VERY excited to see him!

Their one hour stint sitting together in the second row.