Monday, August 1, 2011

Road Trip!!!




Hey everyone
We are traveling cross country with Olive and Emmett. Right now we are in Louisiana in the Sheraton overlooking downtown New Orleans. Tonight we will visit a cousins who lives in the city. The last week has been amazing but very busy. Let me give a quick update on our trip so far.

Day 1 we drove 483mi the first
day to Washington DC to visit my brother Pat and have dinner with my cousins and aunt and uncle. The
drive was uneventful thankfully, no traffic, no construction and we arrived mid afternoon which was great, plenty of time to hang out and check out Pat's neighborhood.

Day 2 we were planning on staying at a hotel in Columbus, OH and found out just before leaving DC
that an old friend of our's, Jacey, lives just outside of Columbus. We called her up to see if we could meet for dinner and ended up staying over her place for the evening, meeting her husband Ben, dog Tuck and 6mo old daughter Blakely. Olive and Tuck got along well and wrestled most of the time we were there.

Day 3 and 4 we had a very short drive to Crawfordsville, IN were we stayed with my grandparents and their dog, Birdie, for a couple nights. Olive got along well with Birdie and spent most of her time there wrestling with her. Day 4 we visited my Aunt's house here we met up with my cousins We also got to meet my cousin Dusty's new baby Hadley who is 6mo old. She is so cute and really
loved Emmett.


Day 5 was a beautiful drive from Indiana through Kentucky to Tennessee. We stopped at a
bourbon distillery and saw some amazing old thoroughbred farms. It was beautiful country. We stayed with a friend of mine from way back, Brooklyn. We were able to meet her husband Chris and see their 35acres of land they are building on along with their horses and donkey. Olive loved the space and felt conflicted about the horses, at times trying to herd them.

Day 6 and 7 were a blast, we stayed in Atlanta, Georgia with David's cousins, Michael and Kelli and also seeing cousins Mark, Monica and their kids, Oliver and Lillie. They showed us a great time, bringing us to Piedmont Park for a walk and dip in the fountains, to R Thomas for some amazing food and parrot viewing. It was also so wonderful to actually sit down and hang out because the last couple of times seeing them have been so busy.

Day 8, Pensacola, FL to visit David's aunt Brooke and Uncle Mark. I had never been to the Gulf
Coast of FL or at least I don't remember. The water was beautiful, the beaches with white sand amazing. David and I got to go for a dip while Emmett took a nap and the water temp must
have been atleast 75 degrees. The only down side to the visit was when David got stung by a jellifish, but he has recovered just fine.


And here we are Day 9 in New Orleans. The trip has been amazing so far, Emmett and Olive have done fabulous in the car. I'm getting very good at breastfeeding while David continues driving, I have perfected what friends of ours calll "The Hangover." I will let your imaginations do the work of figuring that move out.

More to come later! We're having a blast. Thanks to all our hosts and all those back home thinking about us!

-Alison and David (and Emmett and Olive)

1 comment:

Mary Lundquist said...

Oh, you busy kids! Glad to hear about the trip and see that it all went well. You must be settling into your new place now. Can't wait to hear about how that goes :)
x mary