Long time no blogging!
Vacation time came last week and the kids had no idea where we were taking them. Another couple and us joked during the great Ice Storm of 2007 that a vacation to Florida would be great right about then. The more we joked about it, the more the vacation sounded like a good idea, so we made plans and decided to go for it this summer. The problem was trying to get to Florida and Disney without the kids (our 3 and their 2) finding out and constantly bugging the heck out of us.
The plan? We told them we were going to the mountains! Which wasn't lying since we went to Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and stayed just outside the Appalachian Mountains on the way down. The funny part was listening to them try to decide just which mountains we were going to see. My kids had decided that we were going to either the Rocky Mountains or to the Appalachians. We told them that we would be visiting Tennessee and Kentucky and that let our middle child to creatively have her Summer School teacher look up the weather in those states so she could plan what clothes to bring.
The best story though is with the other family's kids. Their oldest was determined that we were going to Colorado and in a funny slip, her mother told her that she had no idea where we were going since there were mountains in Mexico and that taking a family to Mexico was REALLY cheap. That would have been all good and well, until she was telling her husband what happened and their youngest overheard and ran to tell the oldest. They then told our kids and it was set in stone in their minds...
Well, my wife and I are not ones to let something like this go, so the day before we left we looked up and found Mexico, Kentucky. It was about 15 miles off Interstate 24 we would be traveling on so we set our excursion to take a small detour and ended up at a grease spot in the road named Mexico. Drove past the town sign the first time since the only one there faced the opposite direction. After we turned around and saw it we took pics with the kids and had a good laugh...and boy were they confused.
I'll post some more pix of the trip soon.
Vacation time came last week and the kids had no idea where we were taking them. Another couple and us joked during the great Ice Storm of 2007 that a vacation to Florida would be great right about then. The more we joked about it, the more the vacation sounded like a good idea, so we made plans and decided to go for it this summer. The problem was trying to get to Florida and Disney without the kids (our 3 and their 2) finding out and constantly bugging the heck out of us.
The plan? We told them we were going to the mountains! Which wasn't lying since we went to Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and stayed just outside the Appalachian Mountains on the way down. The funny part was listening to them try to decide just which mountains we were going to see. My kids had decided that we were going to either the Rocky Mountains or to the Appalachians. We told them that we would be visiting Tennessee and Kentucky and that let our middle child to creatively have her Summer School teacher look up the weather in those states so she could plan what clothes to bring.
The best story though is with the other family's kids. Their oldest was determined that we were going to Colorado and in a funny slip, her mother told her that she had no idea where we were going since there were mountains in Mexico and that taking a family to Mexico was REALLY cheap. That would have been all good and well, until she was telling her husband what happened and their youngest overheard and ran to tell the oldest. They then told our kids and it was set in stone in their minds...
Well, my wife and I are not ones to let something like this go, so the day before we left we looked up and found Mexico, Kentucky. It was about 15 miles off Interstate 24 we would be traveling on so we set our excursion to take a small detour and ended up at a grease spot in the road named Mexico. Drove past the town sign the first time since the only one there faced the opposite direction. After we turned around and saw it we took pics with the kids and had a good laugh...and boy were they confused.
I'll post some more pix of the trip soon.
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