So we left today for two week road trip from Ankeny to Canadian Rockies.
I’ve been planning this trip for josh’s 40th for 6 months! Been packing for possibly chilly weather and a dairy free/gluten free kiddo! Pinning things on Pinterest, internet searches for things to do along the way and we’re off!!!
We are driving to Calgary and josh is flying there to meet us. We hit the road and we’re al excited because Netflix allows you to download movies now! Unfortunately many didn’t work 😩 but we packed plenty to do. We stopped at chutes and ladders park near Minneapolis first. A friend told me about this park and it’s fantastic!!! The kids played with grandma and I took kenna to go get oil changed...oops!!! Id meant to do that before I left and forgot...3500 miles required clean oil!
Zach mentioned he was hungry and a sign literally appeared satungrest stop 1 mike so we pulled over for lunch. This place had a way smaller park, gorgeous trees and was 50 feet from a lake ! Love Minnesota restrooms!!
After some lunch and play (with some scolding of Grayson as he’s been extra whiney today!) we took off again.
We made decent time to Jamestown and enjoyed meeting the biggest buffalo in the world and touring frontier village. Ran by Burger King where we had the most confused cashier ever...obviously in training, and headed to the hotel. Trying to check in they only found 1 room and in the midst of mom and I freaking out Grayson looses it. I drag him outside as he’s throwing a fit for no reason and we figure out that we did have two rooms. Hopefully good night sleep corrects this crying that’s been going on.
Finished the evening in this shallow pool. Kenna was in absolute tears because the hot tub is broken and this pool is so shallow. We had a conversation about lemons to lemonade and a chat with the front desk person. Once the fountain was on she parked up and they all had fun!
Memorable moments
- trying to fit two weeks worth of food in a cooler
- Zach admiring dragonflies and telling me that they had such an interesting design, he was mesmerized by following them
- kenna packing everything by herself including adding suitcase divider to for us each our own partition.
- Grayson insisting he sleep absolutely right next to me and holding my hand as he fell asleep
- almost 8 hours of uninterrupted conversation with my mom, so fun to travel together
- not figuring out why the van door wouldn’t open (gas door was open 🤦♀️)
- discovering new park in MN
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