Summer Vacation - Part 1

We are back home after a wonderful trip south to visit family and celebrate Carter's 2nd birthday. There are MANY pictures to share and MANY stories to tell that I don't want to forget so I am going to try to take each day at a time and share the highlights.

We decided to head out Friday evening after Adam got done with work. He had probably his busiest work week leading up to vacation with several very late nights and several very early mornings. On Thursday he came home early, but only to work on a long list of things to do around the house before we headed out of town. What a trooper - he deserved every minute of his vacation!

As usual, I was behind on my packing, but somehow we managed to leave by 6:30. We stopped for dinner 30 minutes or so down the road. Then Carter got to watch one short video on our portable dvd player (don't think we could make our long drives without this little machine!) before it was time for night night. He dozed off shortly after the sun set and we were on our way to Greensboro for the night.

We got to our hotel a little after 11:00 and Carter was still sleeping soundly. I got him out of the carseat and was on my way inside when a pizza delivery man got out of his car and said VERY VERY loudly - "Where y'all gettin' in from?" The sleeping toddler on my shoulder was no longer asleep. We spent the next 3 hours doing everything we could to try to get him back to sleep with no luck. So we loaded up the car again at 3:00 am and got back on the road. No need to go into any details about all that - it was just pretty miserable.

Adam got a large cup of coffee while Carter and I dozed for a bit. We made it to Atlanta by 7:30 am, got breakfast at Chick-fil-A and then hit the road again. Adam has never been one to sleep in cars, but I think he was out within 5 minutes of me pulling onto the interstate in Atlanta. We got to Birmingham by late morning - a good 12 hours ahead of schedule.

Needless to say, we all crashed for a long afternoon nap.