Road Trip!

As most people know, most of my family lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I lived there for the first thirteen years of my life. Before Kyle and I were married, Kyle came up for a visit with me. It was in January and it was very cold, so we didn't get to sight see and show Kyle around. We've been married for five years and we've only now been able to return to Pittsburgh together for a short trip. We were even more excited to go this time to show off Brody! My mother decided she wanted to come up with us and my brother and sister-in-law allowed us to bring Haley, too. :)

I was pretty nervous about a nine hour car ride with Brody. My poor mother had to first drive 3 1/2 hours with Haley to our house and then the additional 9 to Pittsburgh. Our friends who have two small children lent us their DVD player that attaches to the head rests. We were able to put one on Brody's seat with him turned backwards and one on the driver's seat so Haley could see it sitting forward. That worked out GREAT! It was a life saver! Haley controlled the DVDs and had the remote so she was a happy girl. :)

We left on Thursday, July 21 and came home Tuesday, July 26th. I decided to drive, Kyle sat up front next to me, Haley and Brody had the middle seats and my mom had one of the back seats. Not far into the drive she started getting sick (but didn't tell anybody!) We left at 8:30am from our home and had our first stop at around 11:30am which I thought was pretty good. Haley wanted a Chik-fil-a but there was never one around when we were hungry! We decided to make a quick stop at Krystals.

Kyle told my mom that he would sit in the very back and let her sit up front with me. She thought about it but decided to stay in the back. (We still didn't know she wasn't feeling well!) We went about another 3 hours and stopped again for some gas. My mom was feeling pretty bad at this point and finally decided to let us know she was getting car sick! We bought her some Ginger Ale and were on our way again - this time with her sitting in the front!!

She sipped her Ginger Ale and started to feel better, but Brody started to break down. I think it's because he could see Kyle and wanted out of the car seat. We decided to make a stop at a Burger King parking lot to let Brody out of the car seat for a minute. My mom and I let him play in the front seat for a couple of minutes and then put him back in his carseat. He made it the rest of the way sleeping on and off and whining some.

We finally made it to my Grandmother's house a little before 6:30pm. The trip was supposed to take 9 hours 21 minutes. I think we made pretty good time! We survived the first long car ride - only one more to go!