Road tripping, part one

I don't think I can tackle the whole trip in one posting...so I am breaking it up. At last count I had 377 pictures from my two cameras. I don't think I will be posting all of those either (aren't you lucky).

Part one will be our road trip up to Colorado. We left Friday afternoon and drove to Hobbs, NM. It was a long drive and the boys did great. Gran had made each of the boys a travel bag full of games, toys and treats. They came in very handy.

From Colorado

There are many stops to coordinate and they don't always get coordinated well. There are bathroom breaks for the parents and the 3 year old and there is a feeding schedule for the 9 months old. This makes for lots of stops.

As you can see Chris has the car very secure. He had been to a car seat inspection site earlier in the month and they mentioned that all loose items in your car become projectiles when you are in an accident. So for our trip to Colorado most everything was strapped down with bungee cords and covered with blankets. We bought a rooftop bag to hold our clothes. This was a great addition to our roadtrip.

Our dinner stop was at McDonald's in San Angelo. It was about the grossest Mickey D's I have ever seen. We avoided all Mickey D's for the rest of the trip based off this one stop.

We finally made it to our hotel pretty late (after getting a little lost in Hobbs, NM due to being tired and bad directions). We were up early the next morning, excited to get to Colorful Colorado.

We made a stop in Roswell at the Walmart. Another place we avoided for the rest of the trip. We decided we are Target people, not Wal-mart people...nothing wrong with Wal-mart people, we just had some bad luck with Wally World. We did get a ride in on the Flintstones car for Christian. He also got a Batman activity book. He in now a HUGE Batman fan.

One of our last stops was about an hour and a half outside of Pagosa Springs. It was in Echo Ampitheater. We stopped for a picnic. It was way better than McDonald's or Wal-mart.

Finally we made it to Pagosa. Gran and Pa arrived the day before so there wasn't much for us to do except unload the car and make ourselves at home. The next day our friends Jennifer and Mark drove in from Denver for visit with us for a few days.