Friday, July 2, 2010
day 5 July 2, 2010
We got an early start to the day and met Alicia and her kids and Sammy, my nephew for breakfast. It was at a place that doubles as a breakfast place in am and italian place in pm.
Food was pretty good, although the waitress forgot some of our food, and the kids got tired of waiting, so we did alot of sharing. It was ok with us, you could see the very young waitress was very flustered. We found out later, she was the owners daughter and had to fill in because mom chipped her tooth...
Alicia took us to Steamboat Lake and we started to let the kids swim at the beach and a storm hit and we sat it out in the van and truck. so we opted for going to a pavilion for lunch. By that time things cleared off and we were able to try our hands at fishing... No luck, but the kids had a ball wading.
went back to the hotel for clean clothes and went back to Alicia's house and got to finally see my big brother Robbie, and his wife Cindy. It has been 4 years, so I was so glad to get one of his big bear hugs. We all had a wonderful visit, while the kids played outside.
Later in the evening after they went home, Alicia, Allen (her husband) and kids took us to a pond and we went fishing again. This time, it went better, Jacob caught two rainbow trout, Anna caught one and Al caught one... Best of all we all had a blast...
Kids didn't eat much today, so when we got back to hotel, I gave them supplements and ordered a late snack of Dominos pizza. We watched Paul Blart, Mall Cop, and they only made it 15 minutes into the movie when they were all sound asleep....
Another wonderful day on our journey,,,,Night All
Food was pretty good, although the waitress forgot some of our food, and the kids got tired of waiting, so we did alot of sharing. It was ok with us, you could see the very young waitress was very flustered. We found out later, she was the owners daughter and had to fill in because mom chipped her tooth...
Alicia took us to Steamboat Lake and we started to let the kids swim at the beach and a storm hit and we sat it out in the van and truck. so we opted for going to a pavilion for lunch. By that time things cleared off and we were able to try our hands at fishing... No luck, but the kids had a ball wading.
went back to the hotel for clean clothes and went back to Alicia's house and got to finally see my big brother Robbie, and his wife Cindy. It has been 4 years, so I was so glad to get one of his big bear hugs. We all had a wonderful visit, while the kids played outside.
Later in the evening after they went home, Alicia, Allen (her husband) and kids took us to a pond and we went fishing again. This time, it went better, Jacob caught two rainbow trout, Anna caught one and Al caught one... Best of all we all had a blast...
Kids didn't eat much today, so when we got back to hotel, I gave them supplements and ordered a late snack of Dominos pizza. We watched Paul Blart, Mall Cop, and they only made it 15 minutes into the movie when they were all sound asleep....
Another wonderful day on our journey,,,,Night All
Day 4 July 1, 2010
Ate a quick breakfast on the road,,, protein bars and bottles of milk for the kids, coffee, of course, for me...
Anxious now to get out of Kansas. Not to offend anyone, but Dorothy, why did you want to come back?
Kids and I are listening to the unabridged book on CD of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
It really helps the time go by... It has been a great love of mine, driving and listening to books on CD as I travel.
We got into Denver around 1pm and as we approached the city you could see the outline of the mountains beyond.
It was definitely time for a break, so we grabbed lunch at Denny's.
It was very exciting to be starting a new path, a new outlook. The mountains as always, show me that if anyone doubts God, they should be in this beautiful land and see the amazing beauty.
The kids were really curious and kept pointing out differences, such as the amazing amount of pine trees and lack of any other kind. They also noticed that a great many of them were dead.
I explained that the pine beetle was killing off the west's pine trees... It is really quite sad.
We thoroughly enjoyed out trip from Denver to Steamboat Springs. We loved seeing all of the amazingly huge houses, perched in the mountains.
We checked into our hotel, and my niece, Alicia and her two sweeties, Josh and Alaina came to see us and we enjoyed a walk along the river that lays directly behind our hotel, The Ironhorse Inn. The misquitos finally chased us indoors and we visited for a few hours in our hotel room.
It will be so nice to stay put for a few days and enjoy being with family.
Anxious now to get out of Kansas. Not to offend anyone, but Dorothy, why did you want to come back?
Kids and I are listening to the unabridged book on CD of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
It really helps the time go by... It has been a great love of mine, driving and listening to books on CD as I travel.
We got into Denver around 1pm and as we approached the city you could see the outline of the mountains beyond.
It was definitely time for a break, so we grabbed lunch at Denny's.
It was very exciting to be starting a new path, a new outlook. The mountains as always, show me that if anyone doubts God, they should be in this beautiful land and see the amazing beauty.
The kids were really curious and kept pointing out differences, such as the amazing amount of pine trees and lack of any other kind. They also noticed that a great many of them were dead.
I explained that the pine beetle was killing off the west's pine trees... It is really quite sad.
We thoroughly enjoyed out trip from Denver to Steamboat Springs. We loved seeing all of the amazingly huge houses, perched in the mountains.
We checked into our hotel, and my niece, Alicia and her two sweeties, Josh and Alaina came to see us and we enjoyed a walk along the river that lays directly behind our hotel, The Ironhorse Inn. The misquitos finally chased us indoors and we visited for a few hours in our hotel room.
It will be so nice to stay put for a few days and enjoy being with family.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Day 3 6/30/2010
The Holiday Inn Coco Key sports complex was such a nice hotel, we really hated to leave...but leave we did and got as far as across the street to Denny's, where we had a great breakfast. Our waitress was wonderful and attentive. Her name was Mazey and she was a 20 something with red hair and freckles.
Getting on the road, we made good time getting out of Kansas City, MO and scooted into Kansas.
It had beautiful rolling hills at first, but quickly flattened out. The trees thinned out and got much shorter. It does have a charm of it's own though. There was a breeze blowing and the wheat fields and corn fields were waving like green and gold oceans.
The kids were tickled to get to see a coyote running across the highway and into the fields....
We got a kick out of all the cowboy stuff on the billboards, as well as the advertisements for OZ and for seeing Dorothy's house.
We were hoping to get into Colorado and stay on the east side of Denver, but the kids and are were bushed and just wanted a dip in a pool and order dinner.
So we are here in Goodland Kansas, in the Days Inn. It's a little run down, but has a great indoor pool that was heated and a sauna and jacuzzi.... Mary,,,where's my margarita??
We ordered Chinese and took turns jumping in the tub and shower....Jacob's in there now,,,I can hear him singing to the Hanna Montana that the girls are watching.... Maddy's laying down trying to get the water to drain out of her ear...I think she is developing swimmer's ear....
Tomorrow, it is onto Steamboat Springs, where we will visit with my niece Alicia and my big brother, Robbie....I can't wait for one of his bear hugs, and hopefully a cookout with his infamous rib spreading ribs....
Night All.....
Getting on the road, we made good time getting out of Kansas City, MO and scooted into Kansas.
It had beautiful rolling hills at first, but quickly flattened out. The trees thinned out and got much shorter. It does have a charm of it's own though. There was a breeze blowing and the wheat fields and corn fields were waving like green and gold oceans.
The kids were tickled to get to see a coyote running across the highway and into the fields....
We got a kick out of all the cowboy stuff on the billboards, as well as the advertisements for OZ and for seeing Dorothy's house.
We were hoping to get into Colorado and stay on the east side of Denver, but the kids and are were bushed and just wanted a dip in a pool and order dinner.
So we are here in Goodland Kansas, in the Days Inn. It's a little run down, but has a great indoor pool that was heated and a sauna and jacuzzi.... Mary,,,where's my margarita??
We ordered Chinese and took turns jumping in the tub and shower....Jacob's in there now,,,I can hear him singing to the Hanna Montana that the girls are watching.... Maddy's laying down trying to get the water to drain out of her ear...I think she is developing swimmer's ear....
Tomorrow, it is onto Steamboat Springs, where we will visit with my niece Alicia and my big brother, Robbie....I can't wait for one of his bear hugs, and hopefully a cookout with his infamous rib spreading ribs....
Night All.....
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
6/29/2010
We started out the day by enjoying a very nice continental breakfast at the Quality Inn. We met a really nice young couple one their way home to Michigan. Jacob had charmed the lady attendant of the breakfast bar. Unfortunately, she was a cheek pincher and he was starting to get aggravated at being treated like a baby. He did finally told her don't. I explained quietly to her when I got more coffee, that the kids were older than they looked. So she left him alone after that.
The kids did great helping straighten up their areas in the van, while I loaded the van. We got on the road by 9:45am.
We drove past some beautiful horse farms in Kentucky, then things started flattening out, as we got to Indiana and Illinois. I grew up in Peoria and Washington Illinois and while I have fond memories of being in the cornfields and all the family reunions where we ate huge quantities of fresh corn on the cob, I definitely feel more at home in the BlueRidge Mountains of Virgina. The breeze caused the corn to ripple like green waves, it brought back alot of memories.
For lunch, I caved in and we grabbed Mcdonalds. Although the kids had cheesburgers with apple slices and milk. We have a cooler for rest stop picnics, but we had two different OI meet-ups planned and didn't want to miss one.
Around 1:30 we got to St. Louis and met Dottie George and Nick at Oberwies's where she very kindly treated us to ice cream at this local favorite. We all had a great time getting to know them. Since we didn't get to do Flat Stanley at home, I taped 4 pieces of paper together, drew a Flat Stanley, and the kids and I colored it. We got photos of all of the kids together..
We then hightailed it to Kansas City and checked into a very beautiful Holiday Inn and got cleaned up just in time to meet with Stephanie Guin and the wonderful Binning family. Sami truly has the OI social butterfly personality and my kids quickly fell in love with both Sami and her big brother Carter. Jacob and Carter got along like old buddies. We enjoyed a long vist of hot chocolate and coffee. We got Flat Stanley photos again, and let Sami try out one of the Ti-lite wheelchairs we had with us. We can't wait to spend time with all of them at the conference...
We missed supper and the kids weren't hungry until later, so we had ham,cheese and crackers and capri-suns for a quick bite and watch Cake Boss on TLC... All three kids are sound asleep.
I arranged for a late check-out for tomorrow so that we can take a quick swim before heading out again....
Tomorrow it is off to Denver and more adventures with my three amazing kids....Night all.....
The kids did great helping straighten up their areas in the van, while I loaded the van. We got on the road by 9:45am.
We drove past some beautiful horse farms in Kentucky, then things started flattening out, as we got to Indiana and Illinois. I grew up in Peoria and Washington Illinois and while I have fond memories of being in the cornfields and all the family reunions where we ate huge quantities of fresh corn on the cob, I definitely feel more at home in the BlueRidge Mountains of Virgina. The breeze caused the corn to ripple like green waves, it brought back alot of memories.
For lunch, I caved in and we grabbed Mcdonalds. Although the kids had cheesburgers with apple slices and milk. We have a cooler for rest stop picnics, but we had two different OI meet-ups planned and didn't want to miss one.
Around 1:30 we got to St. Louis and met Dottie George and Nick at Oberwies's where she very kindly treated us to ice cream at this local favorite. We all had a great time getting to know them. Since we didn't get to do Flat Stanley at home, I taped 4 pieces of paper together, drew a Flat Stanley, and the kids and I colored it. We got photos of all of the kids together..
We then hightailed it to Kansas City and checked into a very beautiful Holiday Inn and got cleaned up just in time to meet with Stephanie Guin and the wonderful Binning family. Sami truly has the OI social butterfly personality and my kids quickly fell in love with both Sami and her big brother Carter. Jacob and Carter got along like old buddies. We enjoyed a long vist of hot chocolate and coffee. We got Flat Stanley photos again, and let Sami try out one of the Ti-lite wheelchairs we had with us. We can't wait to spend time with all of them at the conference...
We missed supper and the kids weren't hungry until later, so we had ham,cheese and crackers and capri-suns for a quick bite and watch Cake Boss on TLC... All three kids are sound asleep.
I arranged for a late check-out for tomorrow so that we can take a quick swim before heading out again....
Tomorrow it is off to Denver and more adventures with my three amazing kids....Night all.....
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