Tomorrow we leave for Canada... woo-hoo! I am so excited for Doug & Sandy to be able to see their grandkids again. Little Em has changed so much in 4 months... I hope they are prepared for her sweet smiles and cheezy grins. :-D Grandpa Dougie had better be on his toes with Noey around... he can be an ornery little guy. :-)
We won't be making the 20 hour trek to Wembley, AB this time, but will be meeting them in Langley, BC (a suburb of Vancouver). Doug & Sandy will be in Langley for a wedding, so we decided to make an extended weekend vacation out of it. We figure it should take us about 6 hours driving time to get there, depending on traffic and pit-stops (this will be our first time travelling this far with two children). If we skip out of Portland just after the morning rush, we should be able to get through Seattle before any afternoon rush... I hope!
Hopefully we will see more than just
this on our road trip... ;-)
Have a good weekend everyone!
Update
Well, after a fairly busy drive, we made it to our destination, the Holiday Inn Express at Langley -- in the very spacious 'Family Suite'. We are all very glad to finally be out of the pickup and able to stretch our legs. Unfortunately, Doug & Sandy had some mechanical problems [cough]Dodge[/cough] that set them back a few hours; but they should make it in time for us to have supper with them.
The kids did pretty good on the trip up here -- we only had to stop at two rest areas and an Arby's. Noah has always been a good traveller (he made his first 20 hour drive at 3 weeks of age), but he is still a little boy -- we kept track of the 'are we there yet' questions... here's the scorecard:
"Are we there yet?": 2
"Are we in Canada yet?": 9
"Are we at the hotel yet?": 3 (all asked once we had crossed the border :-)
