The kids and I drove to Evansville for Spring Break to visit Gran and Papa Michael
(for any non-Jackson readers: those are my parents.) It was the first time we had done the drive, which took us about 6 hours. The kids have never done such a long car ride before, and I was worried that Becca would give us a repeat performance of her 3-hour screamfest from a few years ago. However, the kids did really well in the car, much better than I had hoped for. It helped that I packed a zillion snacks, and made them road trip binders (thank you Tanya for this idea!). The thing they really enjoyed was listening to books on CD. I checked out a bunch from our library right before the trip and they were a huge hit. If you are looking for recommendations for kids this age, we liked: Mr. Putter and Tabby, Mercy Watson, and Junie B. Jones.
Evansville has a wonderful children's museum. Almost all of the pictures I took on our trip are from the museum:
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| Samuel making a bridge |
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| In the water room |
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| Becca and Papa Michael building a house |
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| In the giant bulldozer bucket |
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Becca and Gran working the digging machine
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Samuel said his favorite part of the museum was the building room (although his clothes would definitely indicate the water room!). Becca's favorite was absolutely the face painting. Here is a video of how much she enjoyed that:
She wore that face paint for the rest of the day and even put up a fight when I tried to wash it off in the bath that night. I think she wanted to wear it forever.
Other highlights from our trip included:
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| Samuel going fishing with Papa Michael |
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| Ice cream at Dairy Queen on the way home |
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| Ice cream. Yum. |
All in all, we had a great time on our trip. It was fun to see everyone in Evansville, and we will plan to go back again sometime!
