Young Party of Four

Today's post is brought to you by rain, jellyfish, and the Blue Angels. It was quite a day. We started our day bright and early. We wouldn't expect any different at this point. The kids rolled over and announced they were awake around 6:15. Initially we encouraged them to stay in bed but it didn't last long before we let them snuggle with us for a few minutes. Then we figured we should get up and get moving anyway because we knew we needed to leave early for today's activity. We went down to the breakfast area and had breakfast. Kenzie chose a chocolate chip waffle and Will had a regular waffle. Actually, we all had waffles. This particular Hampton Inn didn't have a large spread for breakfast. It was probably the smallest we have ever seen but when it is free, we don't complain. We aren't big breakfast people anyway so one rule we live by on trips is basically that our hotel has to have free breakfast. It wasn't too long after we finished that we ...

Warning: Pic heavy post ahead! This morning we were up bright and early (our alarm was set for 6:30 and we had plans to be out of the house as close to 7am as possible) for our summer road trip. Both kids had to be woken up... which figures because of course they would "sleep in" on a day that we actually wanted them up early at 7am but it only took us about another 15 minutes to get everyone ready and out of the house. By about 7:15 we were off and on the road to start a week of fun! Today's drive was set to be our longest stretch. Our plan was to travel from home in Apopka to Pensacola. The drive was about 447 miles and 6.5 hours without stopping. We also knew that we would switch time zones today so we were planning on having the extra hour. The first bit of the drive was pretty uneventful. Yesterday Steven picked up a rental car from Alamo at the airport as we weren't comfortable traveling this distance with either of our own cars. The only real issue i...