This is a short clip of Hannah when we went through a tunnel in North Carolina:
Me and Michael J. Fox
3 months ago
Sunday, June 20, 2010
PICS - Cincy to HHI
A few pics from the day - main post below.
Mari getting ready for our picnic:
Faith hanging out:
Hannah getting ready to slide:
Robby being grumpy:
Mari getting ready for our picnic:
Faith hanging out:
Hannah getting ready to slide:
Robby being grumpy:
Waiting for the other boot to fall...
Okay, that was freaky.
We spent all day yesterday getting ready for our insanely early departure. I got up at 3am, already with a headache from lack of sleep. At 4am we woke the kids up, piled them into the car, and took off, armed and ready for a 12-hour journey.
This is called tempting fate. The potential disasters were beyond our ability to count.
Are you ready for this?
Everything went remarkably well.
Now. No one went back to sleep like we had hoped. Hannah and Robby were kind of difficult and whiny. But that was it.
We managed to drive straight to the I-75 Tennessee welcome center where we stopped for an in-car breakfast - pancakes and waffles we had nuked and toasted up before we left home. No incidents. We then managed to drive past Knoxville, stopped for gas, still no incidents. Drove to Flectcher Community Park in Fletcher, NC, which I had scouted out for a good place to stop for a picnic and a chance to let the kids run around. Turned out to be a very nice park. Nice playground equipment - fairly new, pretty clean, mulch and not dirt. Kids had a good time. AND, for as long as we were there, the sun stayed behind the clouds and we had a good breeze. Park had a nice covered picnic pavilion and the kids ate their meal happily. Spent over an hour there. And then, managed to make the entire rest of the journey, about 4 and a half hours, without a stop.
And are you ready for this? The whole trip, without using the in-car DVD player AT ALL. Not a single movie. Nothing. The whole time just music and self-entertainment.
YES! WE ROCK!
But things don't go that well without a corresponding disaster lurking around the corner. Stay tuned. The s**t is going to hit the fan for sure.
We'll post some pics here ASAP - check back often.
Matt
We spent all day yesterday getting ready for our insanely early departure. I got up at 3am, already with a headache from lack of sleep. At 4am we woke the kids up, piled them into the car, and took off, armed and ready for a 12-hour journey.
This is called tempting fate. The potential disasters were beyond our ability to count.
Are you ready for this?
Everything went remarkably well.
Now. No one went back to sleep like we had hoped. Hannah and Robby were kind of difficult and whiny. But that was it.
We managed to drive straight to the I-75 Tennessee welcome center where we stopped for an in-car breakfast - pancakes and waffles we had nuked and toasted up before we left home. No incidents. We then managed to drive past Knoxville, stopped for gas, still no incidents. Drove to Flectcher Community Park in Fletcher, NC, which I had scouted out for a good place to stop for a picnic and a chance to let the kids run around. Turned out to be a very nice park. Nice playground equipment - fairly new, pretty clean, mulch and not dirt. Kids had a good time. AND, for as long as we were there, the sun stayed behind the clouds and we had a good breeze. Park had a nice covered picnic pavilion and the kids ate their meal happily. Spent over an hour there. And then, managed to make the entire rest of the journey, about 4 and a half hours, without a stop.
And are you ready for this? The whole trip, without using the in-car DVD player AT ALL. Not a single movie. Nothing. The whole time just music and self-entertainment.
YES! WE ROCK!
But things don't go that well without a corresponding disaster lurking around the corner. Stay tuned. The s**t is going to hit the fan for sure.
We'll post some pics here ASAP - check back often.
Matt
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