How Long We Gonna Get There?

"How long we get there to Colorado?" Baby Beignet asked a few weeks ago when I was talking about our vacation plans. "Is it long like Sea World?" Hmm, how to explain that it's WAY longer than Sea World?

"Well, it's longer than Sea World. You will eat lunch at school and then I'll pick you and Bug up. We'll get in the car and you will be tired so you'll take a nap. Then we will get out of the car to go to the bathroom. Then we'll get back in the car and drive. Then we'll stop for dinner. Then guess what?"

"We'll be there?"

"Nope! We'll get back in the car and drive some more...."
And this was how the conversation continued.

In the end, both girls were awesome both ways in the car. 19 hrs there, 18 hrs back. We learned a few things:
1. Baby B can make herself go to sleep at the drop of a hat. Even if she has just woken up from a three hour nap.
2. Ladybug can entertain herself for more than 30 minutes with just her pointer and one nostril. Double that time if you give her a kleenex.
3. Small Texas towns have softball tournaments that cause every hotel in town to be full. Keep on drivin'.
4. Competition over who has cows the most often on "their side" of the car is tough.
5. For some unknown reason, this side of Witchita Falls, there is not a horse farm, not a cow farm, but a CAMEL farm. Great entertainment.
6. You can never have too many CD's with kid songs on them. Even when you think you have plenty, at some point, you are going to be so very sick of the rocked out version of 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed, that deep in your heart, you want to throw that CD out the window, just in front of the passing semi.