Well the weekend before last we, unfortunately, had to make a trip to Houston, TX to celebrate the life of Martin's Uncle Joseph Willie who passed away earlier that week. It was a sad weekend, but good to see all of the family again.
Logistics, H1N1 and expensive airline tickets helped us decide to drive down to Houston. That was another adventure. Mapquest suggested that the trip would be 16 hours. Martin's interpretation of that we could make the trip in 13.5 hours, (posted speed limits are really only suggestions). However we did not count on the snow storm that hit Eastern Colorado the day before or the fact that the digital person that lives in the navigation device would be smoking crack that day. Needless to say after being turned back when the freeway was closed and then making a couple of wrong turns, we made it down in a mere 19 1/2 hours. Susannah did great! only a little fussy-ness for about an hour, but after that she was counting licences plate and winning at punch-buggy.
The trip back was even longer. We drove up to Dallas to visit Cousins Tony and Denise for a couple hours and then headed back home. After a couple short naps at rest areas, we made it home just in time to watch the Patriots game on Sunday (slept through the 2nd half). Amazingly, Susannah was happy and smiling when we got back. We were sure she would revolt against the car seat after 2400 miles and so many hours all in 4 days, but she loved it. She and we are lucky she has good traveling pants.
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