Road Trip! Family Vacation 2011

Road trip! Look out B.C. we’re on our way!

July 10^th has arrived! First off Happy anniversary to J and me! Married now for six whole years!  July tenth is the day we had planned to start our road trip to b.C. for our family vacation. But it is also the day after my uncle’s wedding, and we had partied the night away! So needless to say our hopes of hitting the road by 7am quickly turned into “if we get on the road by lunch and drive as far as the kids will let us” plan!

With a quick breakfast, packing, and “see ya soons” to J’s parents who are joining us in Kelowna in a week, and drove off.

This is officially our first family vacation, just us (well for a week at least)!  However our parents do live quite as ways away from us. Which means at least a 6 hour drive anytime we need them or our children are going through grandparent (being spoiled!  ;) ) with drawl!  And being we make such long drives we already know to be armed with all the paraphernalia a child will need! Nintendo d.s ‘s and games (new ones obviously! Couldn’t expect them to play old ones on such a trip!). Portable dvd players, even though our mini van in equipped with one already. A, who is 13 and E, who is 5 cannot watch the same movie of course!  Each had their own back pack (packed by none other than me), filled with age appropriate time, mind, and mouth occupying instruments! Saves my mind and theirs all at the same time!

On our way! Simple, J’s mom printed a short book of directions out for us! Bless her heart, I guess she knew we would need them. After an hour and a half in we were already lost!

lost by Tramping Lake

Being lost sure adds opportunity for adventure inside an adventure, but it also adds opportunity for fighting. And this is where J and I learnt  that we are very different in the way we see adventure.  J is more of the  “adventure starts once we get to where x marks the spot” kind of guy. Where I am the type that believes the adventure starts the second we start out! So being lost together really only means needless bickering about if we should check out the little towns we now have to drive through or try to get back on some sort of schedule! And just so you know …. I lost out! Haha

As it turned out being lost this time really didn’t add a whole lot of extra time to J’s so important “making good time” schedule! We even made it to our" hopeful point". The point where, even though we headed out late and even got lost, we hoped we’d get to for the night! Hanna Alberta would be our home for the night and the first stop on our family vacation road trip!