Vacation, Day 1 – Sunday, June 14, 2010
The first day is always hard. There is much to do, to organize, to purchase. The littles get anxious and the mommies and daddies get tired. Fast.
We left our house at fifteen until four this morning, after a late night of dance recital, dinner and packing the car. We stopped for gas, two Sunday papers and pulled out on the road. Cory went a different way about 30 minutes into the drive and we didn’t follow him. We decided to meet at the rest area on the interstate when they still hadn’t caught up to us. We should have know when mom locked her keys in the car that the day would be rough, but we laughed it off.
Ella and Sophie had just fallen asleep when we pulled in the rest area. E had been asking for two hours when we were going to be there and we had been begging her to take a nap. Everybody took a potty break, while K and Cory made there way to where we were. Garan decided to grab a banana from her car for breakfast and laid her keys on the dashboard. The Beetle locked itself, as it is often prone to do, and the spare key was in the trunk. It was barely 6:30 on a Sunday morning and we were worried about how long a rescue might take. Parked next to us was a hillbilly in a hatchback. His trunk was full of scaffolding and other random things, held closed by a bungee cord. While the men searched for a phone book, mom and I were entertained by this man. I swear I could hear the banjo tune from Deliverance playing in the background!
Forty-five minutes later we were on the road again and both girls were awake. We decided to stop for a biscuit to tide Ella over and hopefully keep her happy. She cried after the first bite and said it wasn’t yummy.
We finally reached our destination and our happy family was there to greet us. SD dropped us off and went to pick up the travel trailer about fifteen minutes away. He forgot the keys and I had to send somebody to take them. When he finally got here, we couldn’t get the air conditioner or refrigerator to come on.
The good news is we finally got ourselves organized and the girls happy. Ella sat at the table to color and Sophie camped out on the trailer floor. I ran to Wal-Mart and bought groceries in the peace and quiet.
