Every year my college roommates and
our families go on a summer trip together.
We all have kids the same age and we started this when they were 1 and
now they’re all 8. Year 1: Fossil Rim,
Year 2: Rockport, Year 3: Canyon Lake, Year 4: Crested Butte, Year 5: Alabama,
Year 6: Alabama, Year 7: Las Vegas, no kids, Year 8: Breckenridge!! This wouldn’t normally even be a blog-worthy
trip because we’re not really hitting the national parks but since we’re in
Breckenridge, we’re going to make a 1-day stop at Rocky Mt NP at the end of the
trip (NATIONAL PARK #20 and one that we’ll surely go back to.) So we left this afternoon from The Colony
because Grant played in a baseball tournament.
His team, the Tomcats, a mix of school kids and neighborhood kids, actually
won two games so while it caused us to get away late (3:30pm), it was worth it
to see the kids win.
We got on the road at 3:30 and had a 5.5 hour drive to
Canyon, TX ahead of us. We bought
Zootopia (a movie) for the ride so the kids started watching that first. We stopped in Childress, TX for dinner at
Dairy Queen but when we got to the register, after a bit of a wait, they said
that if you wanted food, there’d be a 30-minute wait…strange. So we went to McDonalds, the first one I’d
ever been to that had ordering kiosks.
It’s strange to find the most technologically advanced McDonalds I'd ever been to in
Childress, TX. We kept driving down some
dark, single lane highways and after getting a big rock in the windshield,
realized that we had 14 miles of gas left.
And sure enough, what seemed like in the middle of a field, we found a
beautiful gas station.
We pulled into the Holiday Inn Express around 10pm and Grant
started complaining that he hates Holiday Inn Expresses. I didn’t tell him that I got the 4-person Jacuzzi
suite (for like $12 more than a regular room – I think the bill was $131/
night). It was a double room and one
side was literally a 4-person Jacuzzi tub with a lounge area and a TV and a
king-sized bedroom and the other side was a regular hotel room. We all four got into the tub, Nick and me
sans clothes and the kids with their bathing suits on because they were too
creeped out. It was, hands down, the
cheesiest thing we’ve ever done. It
reminded me of one of those super cheesy family holiday cards. It was truly ridiculous and I LOVED IT. We went to bed around 11pm.
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