here in georgia...

Oh, the weather is lovely! A nice breeze, warm sunny skies. Our trip down here was...challenging. The kids were happy and excited and all gung-ho. We had the van packed all smartly, I felt organized for once. Then when it was time for the kids to get in, they had all this stuff! Jon brought...his Easter basket. Still has lots of candy. Plus lots of phones and cords and chargers and the dvd players and dvds and a huge plastic building set with these things that snap together. ugh.

By the time we stopped to go to the bathroom for the first time, which was only an hour and a half into the trip, thanks to Camille, who had to go really bad because she truly forgot to go before we left, our van was in shambles. I had to rearrange things, but still, everytime we open the back hatch, that plastic building set falls out.

Camille had to stop again in another hour, but settled down after that. We left our house at a bit after five in the afternoon, and got to our hotel by 11 this morning. The nice desk lady let us check in early...the only room that was open was one of the handicapped accessible room, which works great for us because it is a hand-held shower.

So...by noon today, we were lounging by the pool. Paul and I were zombies, of course. We drove all night long. We stopped for gas around 1:00 am, all the kids woke up, and the fooling around started. Laughing, poking, the I Did Not, It Was Her/Him, started. The whole nine yards. Sometime after that they settled in. I drove for the most of the middle of the night when the van and the roads were quiet...down through the Carolinas and into Georgia. We stopped at WaffleHouse in South Carolina, sorry Sam! He wanted to go there so badly when we drove down here in January, they are everywhere! We enjoyed their southern twang, and the hospitality. Grilled biscuits? If course I do! I shared with the kids of course.

Anyway, we were so tired, after a bit at the pool we came back to the room and tried to zonk out while the kids watched movies. Paul slept a bit, but I had kids still asking me questions and snuggling up to me.

We decided to go find the ocean. It wasn't too hard because of the new GPS Paul bought for the trip. Takes the fun out of it, but it does make it easy. So we found the ocean. Oh wow. The kids played in the tidal pools and romped in the waves and collected shells. On the way back to the hotel, we stopped at Publix. Jon was not disapointed. He liked it. Healthy food for dinner...turkey and carrots and grapefruit...and a pizza from Dominoes. I had a few bites:)

Tomorrow we got the last few hours to our destination in Florida....

It is more fun than I even thought it would be. We are focused on the kids, and they are just being so much fun. The little girls are so impressed with everything. Palm trees, the wild bunnies at the beach, the lounge chairs at the hotel pool, the free evening cookies. Yup. Yup, I had a few bites. rrr..

Goodnight...perhaps tomorrow some pictures....