National Lampoon's Vacation, Furman Style

Maria and I left on Thursday morning with our 5 kids and drove to Louisville, KY on our way to Chicago for Diana's wedding. We drove through some beautiful scenery in WV. The mountains are spectacular in WV. I recall in my sleepy state that the first mountain I saw, looked like a giant boob. Alas, since I was driving, I could not take a photo of it and made my witty observation too late for Maria to take one, either.

We get almost all the way to Louisville when Dinah decided to toss her cookies all over herself and her car seat, so we're off on the shoulder on 64 west, Maria trying to get her cleaned up and the seat as best as she could. We had plans to eat dinner at our cousin Terry's house. She's the niece of our great aunt Ann. That was a lovely time and to eat a homecooked meal while on route was wonderful. Then.....we get back to the hotel that night and just parked the car when Dale decided she wanted to get in the action of cookie tossing, so we didn't even have a chance of getting her unbuckled. Bleaaaach!!! Dinah took one look at her and bleaaaach! Nothing says love like the camraderie of sympathetic puking. The backseat was an unbelievable mess. I made my kids go inside with the room key and Maria & I were out in the parking lot at 10 pm, she's trying to get the girls cleaned off and get the seats out of the car.

The next morning was spent with me watching all the kids while Maria took the car over to Walmart to buy new car seats and some cleaning supplies to get the back seat area the best she could. The pukey seats had sat outside behind the hotel overnight and we discovered that the maintenance staff had thrown them away. Maria got this really kind maintenance guy to go into the dumpster to get them back. Now, we had to pack the car and find room for the pukey seats, which we'd bagged up in trash bags. There was no room to see out the back of the car and we left about 3 hours later than we wanted to, not trying to see Aunt Ann and get her sick accidentally.

I'll save the port o potty story for the next post. We are in Chicago and Diana is getting married in about 6 hours from now. It's gonna be fun! Photos for my posts will be added when I get home.