We're back, yes we had an awesome, magical, exhausting (yet oddly relaxing), fantastic time. Between my camera, Dave's, & Emma-Rae's we have hundreds of pictures AND hundreds of stories. We haven't gotten all of our pictures yet, we had tons of pictures taken of us by the Disney photographers... we'll share those when we get them. I think what I'll do is post a few pics a day- starting with the beginning....
Stacy & Dave picked us up around 4 a.m. Saturday 11/29. First stop- Hattiesburg, MS to pick up Taryn. Nothing too exciting happened on the first leg of this trip. The kids watched Tom & Jerry and NEVER went back to sleep. Emma-Rae's not sleeping in this first picture, she's watching Tom & Jerry- John-Robert was leaning on her head but the flash of my camera disturbed him- can't you tell? :) I think we stopped at some McDonald's somewhere for breakfast, nothing too exciting yet.
We picked Taryn up in Hattiesburg without a hitch, I think we were slightly ahead of schedule at that point. It had been raining since we left Memphis, not enjoyable for the driver (Dave), especially because the windshield wipers really needed replacing. The picture below of the three kids is when we're in the tunnel in Mobile, AL.
If I'm remembering correctly a little bit before we got to Mobile we were pulled over. The sheriff didn't see the drive-out tag in the back window of the suburban Dave had borrowed so he was wondering where our tags were- THEN, since he had to find something wrong with us crazy criminals heading to Disney- he wanted to see Dave's proof of insurance. Ooops, no such luck- Dave didn't have his insurance card on him. The sheriff gave him a warning ticket & told us we may get pulled over several times before we get to FL but once we were in FL we were SURE to be pulled over & ticketed for not having proof of insurance, he suggested we stop somewhere and get the insurance company to fax him a copy of one...okay, thanks for trying to freak us out & kill our Disney buzz. Dave asked him if he could give us an escort through the remainder of Alabama (OMG- yes he really did) Mr. officer declined. John-Robert of course was watching a movie or doing something in his own little world during all of this and kept talking REALLY loud, so loud we couldn't hear the sheriff a few times- which completely freaked Emma-Rae out because she thought we were all going to jail. John's look pretty much sums up the experience...
Not too long after we got into Florida we saw a car in a ditch and a woman waving her hands out the window- presumably for help. We were the part of the highway divided by a forest & were going about 75 mph so we couldn't turn around or anything but Dave did call Florida highway patrol (*FHP) with the location/mile marker & they dispatched assistance. Thankfully the car didn't look damaged, it was just so rainy- sure hope everything turned out okay for her.
It was a LONG drive, Emma-Rae took a million pictures of her and Taryn in the backseat- I'll only subject you to one. They were doing lots of "posing" notice the identical placement of their hands on their chins-LOL! Also notice they are wearing sunglasses, WHY?? I'm sure it's only to look cute because it RAINED and was cloudy 99.9% of the drive.
One thing that sure made our drive a little nicer were the maps John printed out for each of the kids. It was great to be able to show the kids on a map how much further it was, John-Rob still asked are we there yet a million times. But seriously, as a whole the kids did really great putting up with such a long drive. Poor Stacy was so squished (she has MUCH longer legs than I) she had her legs propped up on the ceiling, John made it through the drive by consuming several Rock Star's and Dave drank several Red Bull's. Dave had Stacy's XM radio transferred to the Suburban so between that and our iPod's we had plenty to entertain us. However- I'm just gonna say it- John is the pits to listen to music with, he HAS to be in control of the music & generally only likes the first two seconds of a song. If he didn't like a song you played he'd just push the little button on the steering wheel and it would be complete silence, I would then rush to find a song he liked but in the meantime just played whatever (I called it filler) he didn't appreciate my filler songs. So not fair- but I love him anyways.
One thing that sure made our drive a little nicer were the maps John printed out for each of the kids. It was great to be able to show the kids on a map how much further it was, John-Rob still asked are we there yet a million times. But seriously, as a whole the kids did really great putting up with such a long drive. Poor Stacy was so squished (she has MUCH longer legs than I) she had her legs propped up on the ceiling, John made it through the drive by consuming several Rock Star's and Dave drank several Red Bull's. Dave had Stacy's XM radio transferred to the Suburban so between that and our iPod's we had plenty to entertain us. However- I'm just gonna say it- John is the pits to listen to music with, he HAS to be in control of the music & generally only likes the first two seconds of a song. If he didn't like a song you played he'd just push the little button on the steering wheel and it would be complete silence, I would then rush to find a song he liked but in the meantime just played whatever (I called it filler) he didn't appreciate my filler songs. So not fair- but I love him anyways.
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