ROAD TRIP

Carsten had a couple of firsts yesterday. We are visiting grandparents in Concord this weekend so we got to enjoy an extended 8 hour road trip. In our mini van. Without air conditioning. In 98 degree weather. JOY. The weather was cool and overcast through Santa Barbara but an hour and a half into the trip, at Santa Maria, we were already too hot. So we stopped at Chuck E Cheese. We decided the pizza tasted OK, but for $30 it should. Actually the pizza was only $20, the other $10 was for tokens. We cooled down, played some games and had fun.

The rest of the trip went pretty well. The temperature cooled down for a while and then heated up again. We made a stop at Taco Bell in King City and cooled down again, and then had to stop about 1/2 hour later to get Carsten to calm down and go to sleep, then he slept the rest of the trip.

As you can see, Carsten is growing up fast. He had fun at Chuck E Cheese and he smiled for his grandparents when he got here. Then he set a record and slept for 6 hours straight. I don't know if it was all the screaming in the car that did it or the 1/2 hour we spent smiling at each other before I put him down for the night.

I think it was the smiling.