Road Trip Review

2 crazy parents
3 giggly girls
22 states
30 days
72 hours of driving
4000 miles
countless memories

As we were making our road trip plans, we did begin to wonder if we really were Cah-ray-zee, but wanting to see as many friends and family as we could before moving, we decided to embark on our longest family trip ever attempted.

Now that it's all said and done, I'm glad we did it.

Driving ended up being much easier than I expected it would be. It actually gave the girls a chance to get a nice, long nap every day. The only stressful/high traffic we got stuck in was the DC area, which wasn't surprising.

No matter how many hours we drove each day, the last 20 minutes seemed to be the hardest. My friend, Katie, gave me a great idea that her mom used with her and her siblings when they were young. I passed out a lemon drop to everyone to see who could make theirs last the longest. The girls also did well with not having to make bathroom stops very often. I think it helped that it was so cool during the first 1/2 of our trip that we didn't need water bottles in the car.

To my surprise, the girls only ended up watching 3 DVDs. They had the most fun taking turns deciding what other activities they wanted to do, such as listen to the radio or a book on CD, play with paper dolls, color/water color, play a certain game, tell a certain kind of story, eat a certain snack... One of Macy's favorite story telling games was to assign everyone a part (like, think of a girl's name, or your favorite food, etc.) and then incorporate them into her story.

We got to see parts of the country we'd never seen before and eat food we never even knew existed. We got to spend time with people we love and miss.

Stay tuned for more details of the Watson's coast to coast tour.