We are even more tireder than before
Sep 17, 2007 The Story of My Life
We’re home and Noah is again crying from exhaustion. Madison is splashing in the bathtub. I’m sitting on the bathroom floor catching up on email.
We visited and/or toured twenty-plus attractions in four days. We caved, we climbed, we rode golf carts, we visited water parks, we rode roller coasters, we toured historic sites, we visited museums, we boated, we enjoyed local eateries, we watched glass blowers and so on and so on. We went to our first attractions by 9am every morning and got to our next hotel by 8pm that night. Everyone we met was nice, everyone was interesting and every stop was fun but we are hammered. And we have Real Life tomorrow including preschool for Madison and meetings for me.
Noah’s favorite parts: Cedar Point, the Kalahari and a walking tour of Oberlin.
Madison’s favorite part (baby book entry) deserves a word-by-word record of our conversation:
Me: What was your favorite part of our vacation?
Madison: The cabinets.
Me: What? (I’m thinking she means “caverns” or something. After all, she was mixing up the Marblehead Lighthouse with the Ghostly Manor all weekend.)
Madison: The CABinets!
Me: What are cabinets?
Madison: They’re brown! We put things in them! [She's sipping her drink and rolling her eyes at me at the same time.]
Me: What cabinets are you talking about?
Madison: The ones with the LIGHT!
And then I realized she means the wooden cabinets surrounding one of the beds at the Oberlin Inn with the dimmer switch that we let her control while we got ready for bed. Yes, that was her highlight.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Ack. You’re scaring me. I leave for my own trip in a couple of weeks and it’s looking pretty full, though not a single roller coaster - yay!
Madison reminds me of a young boy I knew a long time ago. He went with his family to Disneyland for a week. His highlight? Getting to jump on the hotel beds.
September 17th, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Ahhh…the simpler times when cabinets made my kids happy.
Welcome home and to the real roller coaster! Life!
September 18th, 2007 at 1:53 am
Welcome back!
My kids enjoyed the (free-range, mangy) pigeons at the zoo. It never changes.
September 18th, 2007 at 3:58 am
sounds hectic!
a friend once told me that it is worth it travelling with kids as long as you dont mind that they will enjoy chasing pigeons outside the mus/monument/etc. more than the thing itself.
as our kids get older, they are able to appreciate the destination too. but we try to make the small moments fun/interesting. highlight from this summer - reading paddington books together on the tube in london - made the ride much more bearable (no pun intended) and no ‘are we there yet’ - plus, we have a new book to add to our shelf at home and remind us of the trip!