Colorado: Day 1

A few weeks ago, on an outing to Multnomah Falls, Husband and I started throwing around the idea of possibly driving to Denver to see my mom and sisters. We had made the trip by car before 13 months ago and now we were wiser after learning from our mistakes the fist time around. I had five days to plan and got right to it. We left the house at 4am on Saturday with scheduled stops in Pendleton, OR and Boise, ID at McDonald's restaurants with a Playplace. We also had dual screens on the headrests and plenty of DVDs. This worked so well for our kids. They did awesome for the first 10 hours or so. There were a lot of tears in the final miles before we arrived in Lehi, Utah to spend the night with Husband's sister, Cami. But after 15 hours, they were all smiles when they finally got to run around with their cousins.



The next morning, we were out the door by 8am with our first stop in Grand Junction, Colorado, at where else? A McDonald's with a Playplace. The scenery was gorgeous and the drive (10 hours) seemed so short compared to the day before. My stepdad, Ken, had dinner waiting for us.

Our first official day in Denver was pretty low key. Ping and I took Ami the park....


while Husband and Tinyman got some much deserved rest; he did all the driving.


We also played in the pool...



and snuggled with family. Both the kids really enjoyed being with their relatives. "Cynda! Cousin Ping! Where are you?" could be heard constantly coming from Ami's mouth.


She warmed up quickly to her Nana bringing her books in the evening to be read and tormenting the cats while husband and I had some alone time rotting our brains in front of "The Bachlorette".