Driving and Visiting!

For a non conventional vacation during "Fall Break", we had best most relaxed time! The weather could not have been more perfect the entire time. The sun was out every day, not a drop of rain and nothing at all was rushed.

We headed out Wednesday right after school and drove to Hattiesburg, MS. Now the first day of driving was not the best. The kids whined the whole time. Not sure why but they did. I got a hotel, Batman was already asleep when we stopped, and Ladybug and I were shortly behind him.

Thursday we got up and met Mamaw and Papaw at McDonald's for breakfast. The kids had the best time. Batman had gotten two skateboards the day before and they rolled them on the seats for probably 30 minutes. Ladybug wanted to read a little for them as well.


Then we drove by daddy's and my's first house in Petal, MS. I don't think the kids were very impressed. Nice brick 2 bedroom 1200 sq. ft. house. I loved the $400 house payment we had!

Then back on the road. Kids were much better driving today. We drove about 8-9 hours. We got stuck in a motorcycle accident for about 30 minutes and then hit Houston during rush hour (or two hours) but we made it in plenty of time to hit McAlister's for dinner! Haven't had a spud max and sweet tea in several years.

On the way back, the kids were wonderful! There was not one bit of fussing, no complaining, the weather was perfect and the roads were clear.

We had an easy 8 hour drive to Jackson, MS on Friday and arrived in time to play outside with cousins and visit with Mamaw and Papaw. The kids ran for over three hours and didn't stop. They were so excited to see and play together.

They had to get the soccer goal out.




S said the soccer ball needed more air so Papaw got out the air compressor and the kids all had to watch. Too funny.


Mamaw and Papaw and their grand kids.

They colored for awhile.

They played K-nex.

The boys played cars or rather beat the cars up.

The girls had fun playing with this huge horse.

Mamaw had dinner for us that they kids loved and we had a great visit.

Then Saturday we headed out on our last leg of the journey. We made great time and got home about 4:30 that afternoon.

Nothing was rushed, everything fell into place and we were home in plenty of time to get rested and ready to start back to school.