We started our long drive days really early so the boys would sleep for the first few hours. Greg took this while he was driving through Kansas. Beautiful!
Monday, August 2, 2010
Drive Home: Colorado
On our drive home, we stopped to visit Greg's sister Ashley and her husband Jon and their baby Lindsay, who is only 1 day younger than Kayden. It was so great to see them!
Here are a few pictures from the afternoon we spent at the park in Denver.
Utah #2
**Kayden rolled over for the first time from stomach to back and back to stomach during our Utah trip, but he really has not done it since. Greg hasn't seen him roll over yet, so hopefully he will do it soon!**
Home
We are home, and it feels so good to be here. We were planning on taking one more day to break up a very long drive, buy after finding rooms in Erie, PA to be extremely expensive we decided to keep going. We got into Erie around 3 pm, so we still had plenty of daylight to travel in. We got to Buffalo, NY and I begged Greg to keep going because we felt so close. (It is about 3 hours from Buffalo.) He agreed and we got home around 8:30 that night. There really is no place like home:)
Things that happened since last post:
-(Friday)Visited Nauvoo. We saw the temple, visited the visitor's center, and then explored the areas that the church owns. They have a little town set up to replicate what it would have looked like during the Pioneer time. There were a lot of demonstrations as well on how they lived during that time. It was a very neat place!
-Visited Carthage Jail. (Where the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred.)
-Arrived in Indianapolis, IN that night. I drove for the last 3 hours and Kayden screamed for the last hour or so. We decided it was because I was not sitting by him and Greg was. He is a momma's boy; what can I say:)
-(Saturday) Drove from IN to Kirtland, OH to see all the church history sites there. This was by far one of my favorite stops. I had no idea how much there was to see there. So many wonderful events happened in that place. I am very grateful for the sacrifices of the Saints. Because of what they did, I have what I have. I am very grateful.
-We then came home!!
Lessons learned from trip:
-Leaving before 5 am when traveling with small children gives you 3-4 hours of driving time before the kids wake up. It was worth being tired for.
-Eat out only one meal. We had a cooler and bought groceries to last us the other meals. We also tried to stay somewhere where they had continental breakfast. We tried to stay under $30 for the other meal, and we were always under. One time we only spent $11 for all 3 of us.
-Find a hotel room under $100. We were lucky and stayed under that number every night. In Nauvoo we found a room for $50 that had all that we were looking for (pool, continental breakfast, exercise room, internet). But to be honest, the place was a dive. I would never stay there again. But we stayed well under budget!
We had a specific amount of money that we used for the drive and we came home with over $100 left over! I was so happy about that.
States we traveled through over the last month:
-Wyoming
-Utah
-Idaho
-Montana
-Kansas
-Colorado
-Iowa
-Missouri
-Illinois
-Ohio
-Indiana
-Pennsylvania
-New York
What a great month we had!!
Things that happened since last post:
-(Friday)Visited Nauvoo. We saw the temple, visited the visitor's center, and then explored the areas that the church owns. They have a little town set up to replicate what it would have looked like during the Pioneer time. There were a lot of demonstrations as well on how they lived during that time. It was a very neat place!
-Visited Carthage Jail. (Where the Prophet Joseph Smith was martyred.)
-Arrived in Indianapolis, IN that night. I drove for the last 3 hours and Kayden screamed for the last hour or so. We decided it was because I was not sitting by him and Greg was. He is a momma's boy; what can I say:)
-(Saturday) Drove from IN to Kirtland, OH to see all the church history sites there. This was by far one of my favorite stops. I had no idea how much there was to see there. So many wonderful events happened in that place. I am very grateful for the sacrifices of the Saints. Because of what they did, I have what I have. I am very grateful.
-We then came home!!
Lessons learned from trip:
-Leaving before 5 am when traveling with small children gives you 3-4 hours of driving time before the kids wake up. It was worth being tired for.
-Eat out only one meal. We had a cooler and bought groceries to last us the other meals. We also tried to stay somewhere where they had continental breakfast. We tried to stay under $30 for the other meal, and we were always under. One time we only spent $11 for all 3 of us.
-Find a hotel room under $100. We were lucky and stayed under that number every night. In Nauvoo we found a room for $50 that had all that we were looking for (pool, continental breakfast, exercise room, internet). But to be honest, the place was a dive. I would never stay there again. But we stayed well under budget!
We had a specific amount of money that we used for the drive and we came home with over $100 left over! I was so happy about that.
States we traveled through over the last month:
-Wyoming
-Utah
-Idaho
-Montana
-Kansas
-Colorado
-Iowa
-Missouri
-Illinois
-Ohio
-Indiana
-Pennsylvania
-New York
What a great month we had!!
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