Okay, so as we were driving across the country, I realized a few things:
1) No one should drive across the country with 5 children under the age of 5, even with 2 minivans. Just fly! It was comical every time we stopped though, the looks we got were great. Our very first stop was dinner the first day and the thought occurred to me that we could totally be mistaken for a polygamist family. Too bad Pam and I forgot our polygamist dresses. Anyway, every stop lasted at least an hour, including bathroom breaks (3 diapers and 1 pull-up, that is a lot of man power). "Sydney, Noah, EAT!" and "Connor stop throwing _____" (insert everything from food to hotel phones) became our chant. But don't worry, we are all still friends (we are right?)
1) No one should drive across the country with 5 children under the age of 5, even with 2 minivans. Just fly! It was comical every time we stopped though, the looks we got were great. Our very first stop was dinner the first day and the thought occurred to me that we could totally be mistaken for a polygamist family. Too bad Pam and I forgot our polygamist dresses. Anyway, every stop lasted at least an hour, including bathroom breaks (3 diapers and 1 pull-up, that is a lot of man power). "Sydney, Noah, EAT!" and "Connor stop throwing _____" (insert everything from food to hotel phones) became our chant. But don't worry, we are all still friends (we are right?)
2) The farther west we got, the more children we saw. It was actually quite comforting. Our kids weren't the only ones getting evil looks from all the truckers.
They're wild4) Twilight really is a girly book. These are some of the things I heard as I made him listen: "They just had a 45 minute conversation!", "Edward is really a metrosexual masquerading as a vampire", "Did he have to glitter like Brittney Spears in concert?", "That was the exciting part? She just fainted, no tearing of limbs, no knashing of teeth, does Edward ever do anything cool?", "Edward is a lover not a fighter (in a mocking tone)" (and I said, "yeah, what's wrong with that?"), "With that much 'smouldering' is he going to burst into flames?", but after all that, he did manage a "well, at least it kept my mind off driving." So I think he liked it.
5) The last thing was a question really. If anyone knows the answer, please let me know because it really is bothering me. So we passed a lot of flat farms with lots of cows (or "aminals" as Sydney said every time we passed them). My question is, how does the farmer milk these cows? There is so much land and no buildings. Do they ride on their horse and milk them all? That would take more than a day. Now, before you think I am completely stupid (although it did take me a few hours to realize this....) I realize that some were just male cows, or bulls, or whatever you call them, but I did see some with udders. Anyone??
5 comments:
Milk cows are kept a lot closer to home. I'm sure you're probably looking at future steak and pot roast. Dunno about the udders - dried up, past calving age and too old to make good grub so just out to pasture?
What a cute shot of Connor on the fence.
Love the Twilight commentary, that's hilarious!
Glad you made it okay (relatively!) and new joys (sprinklers) are already being discovered!
Are you kidding, why woule we not be friends? After all, we polygamist girls have to stick together!
I'm glad you guys made it alright. Hailey misses Sydney already. It's gonna be a long lonely summer for her. It was fun to see your pictures, and I would have to say I'm a wee bit jealous that you are back in Utah now.
Great post! I'm glad you made it back safe and sound. It really feels empty without your minivans to be seen! :)
Loved the Twilight commentary! I was laughing out loud.
I, too, am a bit jealous that you are in Utah now.
Wow. I can't believe John agreed to listen to Twilight. He'll probably secretly read the next two. Watch out for him! Glad you made it safely. We are one day away. Come to Oregon sometime!
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