For our trip to Baton Rouge, I was hoping to split the drive into 8h on Thursday and 3.5h Friday morning. Well...as soon as we entered norther Louisiana, rest stops with lodging became markedly sparse (as in 50mi apart). At our first stop, there was no vacancy at any of our favorities (Holiday Inn Express, Hampton Inn, etc.), and after two extremely smelly--and somewhat scary (as in, we found a [fake] gun under the bed) stays during our DITY move from Knoxville --> Edmond at the start of Matt's ASCP, I refuse to stay at any motel that includes "econo" in its name.
Once I got below 3h of remaining driving time...and once there was a carseat-wetting incident (that I knew I would prefer to drive through, as opposed to wake-up to), I propped the kids up with pillows and blankets and pushed through, arriving at my sister-in-law and her fiance's apartment complex around 5am this morning. Knowing the sort of morning person monster Matt can be, I did not want to wake up our hosts at such an early hour, so I hung up blankets to cover the Kia's already-darkly-tinted windows, and cuddled/passed out with the girls until 7am when both were up and I really needed to use the bathroom!
We ended up getting a full extra day out of our vacation and, thankfully, our hosts were happy to see us, even at 7am. We started off the day with [2 cups of] coffee, a swim in their complex's super-nice outdoor pool, lunch at my sister-in-law's office, a trip to the park, a huge couch nap during Princess and the Frog and Ratatouille, and a one-of-a-kind Halloween bayou adventure at night. Can't wait to see what the weekend holds! :o)
Really neat dizzy-posts at a neighborhood park:
Posing with "Mama Odie's snake" at the bayou:
Really neat dizzy-posts at a neighborhood park:
Making mummy hot dogs with her Tita:
Posing with "Mama Odie's snake" at the bayou:
The self-nicknamed "butterfly princess" all painted up:
Hoot owl at the bayou:
Hands-on "scat" station:
Baby Louis!!
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