The Road Back Home

The last leg of the journey arrived and not a moment to soon. The breaking point had been reached by the kids and I and we still had 22 hours to drive home. It doesn't matter it the vacation is 3 days or 14 days by the last day I'm just ready to get home. But we still made the most of the ride home. It was just Sean and I driving home. The other car with Jim, Leslee, Mary and Quinn had another few days of road trip and national parks to hit up.
So we got the kids loaded up and headed out on our journey.

In Antinito we swung by the Indiana Jones house from one of the movies and snapped a photo.

The kids in the begining happy and napping. Excited to be heading home to their own beds. We stoped by a cool park in one of the towns a few hours from Antinito, the kids had so much fun getting to stretch their legs before the long ride ahead.

The park had some of the coolest old toys mixed with new. It was bringing back some fun old memories!

Mae and Owen then practiced their creek jumping. Mae loved the little creek running on the edge of the park. It made me think of growing up again. Walla Walla has little creeks like that and I loved them as a kid.

After that little breather we had to get going hard again. Sean drove us all the way to Grand Junction where I took over. We had a few stops on the way to change poor Owens poop, his tummy was not happy with him from traveling. Right before Grand Junction our car did hit a milestone of 100,000 miles. Woop woop.

100,001 the same number backwards and forwards (april pointed that out). Note the check engine light is on too. Makes me laugh because the car was running great. That is until our AC went out on Utah with temps of 99 degrees. It was at that point that we decided to drive throughout the night. We also just wanted the kids to sleep there were a few meltdowns that put us over the edge.

Driving through the night wasn't bad until about 4am and I needed the sun to come out. My eyes were so tired of the dark. It finally came over the horizon and Sean and I had to switch about every 1 1/2 hours, we also did a few Chinese fire drills when we got into Idaho. But we made it home safe and sound after 24 hours on the road including stops. Tuesday was spent laying around and watching bad movies all day. It was wonderful.