The Move: Driving Day Two

After enjoying the continental breakfast at the hotel, we were on the road again this morning by 8:30am. Today's lunch included: pb&j sandwiches, Gogurt, string cheese, chips, and grapes. We serve van meals in plastic tubs (old wipe containers minus their lids). This acts as a tray to keep things from falling all over. The wipe containers are just the right size for little laps to hold. Any leftovers (and crumbs) get dumped into a trash bag and then I wipe them out with baby wipes so they are ready for the next meal.

We took our favorite short cut on US Highway 54 which means we were in and out of both Oklahoma and Texas quickly. Just the way we like it! A little past Tucumcari, New Mexico we had to turn on the AC! We stopped to feed the baby and the boys got out to stretch their legs. They quickly discovered it was down right hot out!

Here's the shadow of the van pulling the trailer full of irreplaceables!

We ended up following this (out of service) brand new Pierce Fire Truck. We guessed it came from Appleton following the same route we had. It was headed to California.

It was about this time that the boys finally started to get a bit squirrelly and started asking "are we there yet?" type of questions. Thankfully, we didn't have nearly as far to go today as we did yesterday and before they got too grouchy we were rolling into Grants, New Mexico for the night.

By the time we stopped in Grants over half the states on our little game board were flipped over!

We stayed at the Quality Inn. This time the gerbils (coming through a side door not the lobby) joined us in the room. We went to Denny's for dinner. They boys have always enjoyed eating at Denny's but they were a bit sad to give up the yearly tradition of going to Chuck E. Cheese on October 31st. We told them we'd take them to Peter Piper Pizza once we were in Arizona to make it up to them.

After dinner it was time for swimming. Then the boys got a special surprise! Grandma LaVerne had sent along little envelopes for the boys to open today. The boys were so excited to find $2 in their envelopes. They were even more excited when we told them they could use $1 to buy something out of the vending machine for a bedtime snack at the hotel!

They made careful selections and this is what they ended up with:
Wesley: Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
Eli and Justus: Jalapeño Cheetos
Hayden: Bugles
JD: Pretzel M&Ms

And they still have a dollar each burning a hole in their pockets!