Whew. That was some vacation. We drove a lot of miles and ate too much fast food. Who knew the US was so freaking big. Geez. I'm glad we were not traveling via horse and buggy or in a wagon train. Instead, we were driving a stuffed-to-the-gills SUV. We had things crammed into every space our vehicle. Things were even stored under the seats.
Traveling that far in a car gives you time to get to know you kids a little better. Since this wasn't the first time we've traveled long distance with the kids, I decided to pay better attention to the odd things they said during the trip. I compiled a list of ramblings. It should be noted that Miles is quite a rambler, more so than Caitlynn. He talks to his toys, to himself, and to anyone that will listen. We know he's asleep in the back when it suddenly gets quiet. That didn't happen too often.
Random ramblings by Caitlynn and Miles as overheard by me.
"This isn't a vacation. Vacations are on boats." -- Miles. He thought we should be on a cruise. It's hard to take a cruise to Ohio from Montana.
"Can we do a DNA test? I need some of your hair." -- Caitlynn, directed at Joe and I
"How fast are you going?" -- Miles, our very own traffic cop sitting in the back seat.
"Are there bears in Uncle Tom's woods?" -- Miles. Uncle Tom's house sits back off the road in the middle of a large wooded parcel of land.
"Yes! In your face!" -- Caitlynn, while swimming at Uncle Tom's house (well, near his house)
"I didn't sign up for raccoons." -- Miles, the first morning after camping at Letchworth State Park in New York. We had a bunch of raccoons hanging around our tent each night we camped.
"Can you turn the fire on?" -- Miles, asking Joe to get the campfire started
"Can you turn the fire off?" -- Miles... again.
"I don't like Caitlynn's jokes." -- Miles, after listening to Caitlynn tell some really bad knock-knock jokes. His weren't any good either. I laughed at their jokes out of pity.
I'm sure they said other noteworthy things on the trip, but I was too busy tuning them out. I had to concentrate on listening to Car Talk.
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2 comments:
Welcome back, I hope you guys did a great vacation :) well, I enjoyed reading your post quiet interesting to start up my morning.
I love vacation and go swimming or everywhere. Sometimes I feel so tired of my work and really want to be out of it even for a week :(.
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