2 Days On the Road

We were on the road at 4:01am heading for Mason, OH and some fun at Great Wolf Lodge. Poor Cakes was sick all through the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia. We stopped to fill the car and let the kids get dressed, take a potty break and stretch their legs for a bit. There was a Hardee's nearby so Scott got a biscuit for Cakes and Silly, but it didn't help Cakes's car sickness any. She had a pretty miserable day. Silly just kept himself busy all day long looking at books, coloring and watching the scenery. My sister Maddie was along for the ride and she was a great help with the kids.

After one other brief stop we arrived at GWL right at 1:00, ate some lunch in our room, then hit the water park. Amazingly, after being so sick in the car all day, Cakes went on water slide after water slide and it didn't bother her a bit. I, on the other hand, could only handle two. I don't remember which one of us had the idea, but one of us is a genius for deciding to end a day on the road like that! Silly spent most of his time up in the forts squirting and dumping water on innocent people down below. Bubba took about two hours to warm up to the experience, but after floating in the wave pool for a long time he decided to have fun. I stood him inside an innertube at the shallow end of the wave pool and he just pushed it around like he was in a walker. He also really like the hot tub. Scott of course maxed out the experience and took Cakes and Silly back to the water park and storytime in the lobby. They have this clock at GWL and it has a little production every night; one of the characters says, "There's nothing to be scared of here" so Scott kept repeating that for the next day or so.

We hit the road again in the morning with just a tiny bit of Ohio and all of Indiana and Illinois to cross. Scott let me do a few hours of driving (finally!) after our first stop of the day. We picked what we think were cherries at some Indiana rest stop (don't worry, nobody ate them). Scott sat back with the kids and Maddie and I sang along to all sorts of songs for several hours. We have very similar voices so it was like hearing myself in stereo. We got a kick out of reading the "Guns Save Lives" burma signs as we drove through Illinois. We stopped at another rest area for lunch, picnic style. After we ate the kids played in some nice dirt for a bit then we hit the road again. Bubba started to lose it about 40 minutes from our destination so I had to pull out the bubbles (the no-spill kind, of course) and that held him off until we got to Nauvoo. We were just minutes away from our hotel and Scott was searching for a song; he settled on "Welcome to the Future" by Brad Paisley. Just a little bit a humor as we step back into 1840.