california day 5...

Home again, home again, jiggity jig... We made it home! We woke up this morning at around 5:30am, finished packing the van, ate another amazing continental breakfast (seriously the breakfast was fabulous! They had anything you could possibly want: waffles, sausage, biscuits, pastries, cereal, fruit, 3 kinds of juice, toast, bagels, omelets, etc...), and got on the road. We really didn't run into any traffic and we made good time.

My sister gave me the great idea of packing each of my kids their own snack bag. Each one of them had a large ziplock bag with about 6-7 snack size bags filled with different snacks. Every 2 hours or so they could pick their own snack to eat. It worked perfectly! Although about 8 hours in they were getting kinda snacked out! (do boys ever really need a good reason to take their shirts off? mine don't...they said it was because we were in the desert!)

Max took a few naps...

Bailey girl took a nap...and Noah was pretty good too...and then...

The hard part about a long drive at the end of a vacation is there wasn't anything for the kids to look forward to...just plain ol' boring home! For the most part they were pretty good...then our lovely Zach had what we call a Zach attack! First it was a round of poking and hitting Noah, then it switched to pestering about when we were stopping for lunch...then finally just after we passed through Cedar City it turned into the life or death need for another drink! (the blue dot on the map is where we were when it started...right before Panguitch...)

Zach couldn't really decide whether to laugh or cry harder at me taking a picture of him...I think it just bugged him more...

I love that they have upped the speed limit most of the way to 80mph!

We all enjoyed the lovely desert rain storms we drove through...

I'm pretty sure that Trav knew that I was taking the picture...; )

Now to the endless piles of sand crusted laundry I have waiting...oh it is good to be home!