Well we started our 2019 summer family road trip vacation with a long day of driving to get us from home to Minneapolis in 13.5 hours. That is an extremely huge feat for our family as we usually prefer short drives with more not driving, so this long drive with no fights, whinning or awful happenings.
first of many ‘great’ selfies.
Mom organized a epic game of car bingo that wasn’t won until around hour 7 of the trip. The shortest one shouted bingo when he finally saw a live gopher and received the grand prize of a travel ping pong game that only takes one person to play.
much art was produced on the drive also he wore those pajama pants all day. lucky kid.
I think most of the credit for a great drive has to go to Mom. Other than the car bingo she packed great snacks and lots of presents or toys to keep kids busy. Some of the presents even had names of town on them so the wee kid had to wait to unwrap the present until we had reached each town. It was a small thing but it had him focus more on what is coming up than on being bored and trapped in the car.
The strangest gift the kids opened were plastic hand cuffs, two sets for each kid. The older ones were confused and not quite sure what to do with them, but the oldest found she could clip them to the head rest and balance her phone on them. Kids can be creative if they want to.
Even though it was creative I am glad the police didn’t pull us over and see this.
We pulled into our hotel at 8:45 pm, checked in, unloaded into the room and then the boys swam in the hotel pool until the pool closed at 11:00. At least everyone will be exhausted and should sleep well.
