Wednesday, April 23, 2008

First Road Trip

So, what do you normally do with a three week old? Feed them, change their diapers, rock them to sleep? Sure, all those things are great. But for us, we decided that packing up the car and driving nine hours to Mt. Rushmore would be a fantastic idea!

Actually, it was much less eventful than we had anticipated. We scheduled time into our travel for feedings and the fact that we were in the car most of the time meant getting Camden to sleep would be a piece of cake. His Granna Jane sat in the backseat so she was on "cork patrol" so any time he lost the pacifier, she was on duty.

We saw the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD and then stopped at Wall Drug because you just can't pass that by. We drove through the Badlands and then spent two nights in Rapid City where we saw Mt. Rushmore, drove the Needles Highway and saw buffalo, deer and wild turkey as we drove the Wildlife Loop in Custer State Park.

Now we're feeling really brave and we're planning our May 2nd departure for Seattle. I am keeping my fingers crossed that Camden flies on a plane as well as he rides in a car.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ryan and Mandy,

Congrats on the birth of your son. He is gorgeous. It's great that you are getting him out and about so early. You shouldn't have any problems flying. Just make sure he has something to suck while you take off and land and you will be good to go. We flew with our daughter at 8wks and it was a breeze. Congrats again. Enjoy every minute. They grow so fast.

:), Amy (Whaley) Watson, from good ole Davie county.