Finally! It took several full, full days to pack up the house and provision the ship, but we are ready to roll.
Loaded Up and Ready to Roll
It took three brains and way too long to figure out how to fit all six bikes on the back, but as of Saturday, February 5th, at 6:PM, we are ready for the open road.
The Open Road
We went to Disney world last February. We got to look at fireworks behind the castle and there was a story about Maleficent. I got to get a Pooh Bear for my souvenir. We went with our whole family and my Uncle Stu. It was sort of cold. My favorite ride was Dumbo. My least favorite ride was Goofy’s Barnstormer. We stayed in our pop-up camper and we always had to take a boat from the campsite across the lake to the castle.
With Ariel in her Grotto
Ariel didn’t look like what I thought she would, she has curly hair. That was my first time ever meeting Ariel.
With Belle in Cinderella's Castle
We were eating lunch in Cinderella’s Castle and then all the princesses came up the stairs and took a picture with us. I’d never seen a real princess before.
At the Ingalls' Schoolhouse, July 2010
The idea for this upcoming RV trip came last Summer when we were camping our way across South Dakota. We spent a day at the Ingalls’ homestead in De Smet (For you Little House fans: this is where Ma and Pa Ingalls ultimately stayed and where Laura met and married Almanzo). While exploring, we met a family who had been on the road in a big RV for just over a year, homeschooling their two children and seeing the country together. Jean and I had talked many times about all the places in the world we want to see with the girls, and the idea of spending several months traveling the continent in an RV really clicked for us. The more we talked about it, the more we wanted to make it happen. So, off we go.
Baterina
I was a baterina for Halloween. It was so much fun at Halloween with my grandad. We made a castle made of cardboard and put it in front of our house so people could come trick or treating and see it. I helped paint the castle black. There were a ton of people at our Halloween party. My grandad, my dad’s friend bobby, my dad, and greta were all in the play. The play was about a vampire named Count Dracula. We made cranberry juice to make it look like blood.
Dracula's Castle, Halloween 2010