David packed almost the entire van before 7 am. He and Sarah set alarms to be up at the original departure time, and were busy all morning helping. Leah too. Busy as bees! Traveling with older children is pretty awesome.
The first piece of our trip is one we've traversed many, many times. Up to Pennsylvania to see Grandparents and drop off our dear dog Lou. We will miss her, but we are sure she will be happier at the family farm.
This is one of the first times however that we have traveled this route during the day. There's a lot more traffic for one, and only Miriam slept, and only for an hour. How did we pass the time over 8 hours?
DVDs. Too many, but it's the first day, and I am too tired to be creative.
Reading time. A total of one hour today.
Song time. 40 minutes of singing. Everyone picked a song, and we sang. Miriam screamed. She finally calmed down with Jesse's choice of "Wheels on the Bus." The older kids ran with this. They sang verse after verse for 31 minutes. Oh my!
We'll spend the night at my family's, and a relaxing day with them tomorrow. No scrubbing!
Stats:
States - Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania
Miles - 500
Weather - pleasant until it poured on the other side of the Appalachians
Sights - the highway and my family, horses running in the rain, pools of dog drool
