Road trip...

Every year we try to go to New Mexico to spend Christmas with my hubby's family. My kids love going to NM because they get to spend time with their cousins who they hardly ever see. But, unfortunately, things did not work out for us this year. And we didn't go. The kids were very disappointed!

My sister had mentioned to me that she was going with her boyfriend to visit her boyfriend's family over the weekend. They live near the border of Illinois and Kentucky. She had asked us if we wanted to go with them. At first, I wasn't sure if I wanted to travel 5-1/2 hours by car. But after seeing the kids getting excited about it, I decided to go. My mom and my little niece also joined us. You know how that goes...where one goes, all follow! And it became our first road trip of the year!

At first, we all became a little restless, after all it was a long drive. Secondly, my sister took her bulldog Wrigley. And, as you may know, bulldogs tend to drool at lot. We were in the back seat and for whatever reason, Wrigley would get right behind me and sneeze or whatever it was and spits all over the back of my head! Ewww! It was so gross! And he would only do that to me! Yuck!!!

When we arrived, we began to look for hotels with an indoor pool. We had to go to four different hotels to eventually find one that had a swimming pool. The kids kept yelling out "Swimming pool! Swimming pool!" We found two hotels with an indoor pool. "Sorry no no rooms available, they are all booked!" O.k., we kept looking. Another one had an outdoor pool (too cold for that). And yet another one had an indoor pool but it was under construction. "Are we ever going to find a hotel with a pool?"

And then...finally we saw the sign... "Indoor Pool!" The kids yell out "Yay! We get to go swim in the swimming pool!" The kids were ecstatic. They wanted to go to the pool right away and were disappointed to find out it was closed! "What? Why is it closed? You mean we will not be able to swim? This sucks!" Hello! It was only 12:30 a.m.!

My mom, kids and I stayed at the hotel while my sister and her boyfriend stayed with his family.

By 7 a.m. the kids were up and ready to go to the pool. They didn’t even want to waste time eating breakfast. I told them they should eat something before so that they can spend the day at the pool and not miss our free breakfast. They went reluctantly.

Finally, they hit the pool! And they LOVED it! They were in the pool the whole morning and part of the early afternoon. My mom and I had a hard time getting them out of that pool!