Spring Break

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:

Samuel making a bridge

In the water room

Becca and Papa Michael building a house

In the giant bulldozer bucket

Becca and Gran working the digging machine

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:

Samuel going fishing with Papa Michael

Ice cream at Dairy Queen on the way home

  

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!