We took a trip
up to San Luis Obispo to attend our friend Stephanie’s wedding. We decided to make a long weekend of it and
left on Thursday. The trip was a
learning experience: (1) Landen is NOT fond of road trips and (2) traveling
with a baby is a lot of work! It was
generally a nice weekend though and we are glad we went to see Steph marry
Clay.
Thursday, July 19th
All packed up
and ready to go! Let’s hit the road!
Asleep before
we even make it to the gas station … we were praying he’d sleep for a LONG time
…
…
unfortunately we weren’t that lucky. He
woke up and started fussing and then crying.
We decided to pull off the road and take a break at a park so Landen
could move around and get something to eat.
We stopped at Conejo Community Park.
I decided to
sit in the backseat with Landen to hopefully keep him entertained for the next
leg of our trip. He spent a little time “working” when we got back in the car.
Then after
being a bit grumpy he fell asleep (thank goodness).
Unfortunately,
we hit some traffic a bit down the road and Landen woke up when he realized we
weren’t moving. At this point he was REALLY unhappy about being in the car and
let us know it! Sobbing crying, refusing all toys and snacks. He finally got
himself so choked up that he threw up all over!! I looked out the window and
saw we were literally in the middle of nowhere – 2 lane road, rolling hills,
not a building in sight. I told John to just keep driving. We were about 30 minutes away from the hotel
and I figured it wouldn’t do us much good to stop at that point. I could change Landen’s clothes but couldn’t
really clean out the carseat or anything. We just sucked it up and kept
going. Landen wasn’t happy but it was
the right decision.
Once we got
to the hotel I got us checked in while John got Landen out of the car. As soon
as he picked him up he was happy as could be.
Stinker. I found a luggage cart
and took a load of luggage up to the room.
Once I dug out the bath stuff, John gave Landen a bath and I headed back
out to the car to finish unpacking and clean up. Unfortunately our room was a long hallway,
elevator, and down a hill from the car … I was huffing and puffing after all my
trips to get our luggage up there. Then
I had the pleasure of trying to clean the puke out of the carseat … it was not
fun. Really, really not fun. I cleaned it out the best I could but I knew
I’d need better supplies than Clorox wipes and washcloths from our room. John decided to go out and buy us some dinner
and stop by Walmart to get vinegar, a bucket, and a scrub brush. That night I went back out to the car and
scrubbed the heck out of everything, and then did a load of laundry in the
hotel. I didn’t want to stay up late to
wait for the dryer to finish so I hung up the wet load in the bathroom to air
dry. Landen was his regular jolly self, but John and I were both stressed,
irritable, and exhausted. It was not a
good end to our first day of vacation. I
just hoped the car wouldn’t smell like puke (or vinegar) the whole weekend.
Bath time!
Friday, July 20th
Luckily we
all woke up happy pappy the next day and the car smelled completely
normal! After getting dressed we went
downstairs for some breakfast.
By the time
we got back up to the room, John and Landen were ready for a snooze.
I took some
pictures of the room.
After naps we
drove to downtown SLO for lunch with some of our friends. We walked to the Splash Café to try their
famous clam chowder. I had something else
of course but John really liked it.
We walked
over to the San Luis Obispo Mission to check it out.
Mission Bells
Someone is
hot, bored, and ready for a nap.
After some
quiet time back in the hotel room we met the Moogers on the boardwalk to get
dinner.
Dinner at the
Cracked Crab
Gnawin’ on a
bag of oyster crackers
My own
weapon!
John’s loving
it!
Saturday, July 21st
Wedding
day!! We spent the morning in our room
playing and taking naps. We taught
Landen how to do a high 5, which he thought was hilarious.
Eventually it
was time to get dressed for the wedding. Don’t we spiff up well? I love my
handsome boys!
The wedding
venue
The
festivities – isn’t Stephanie gorgeous?
The food and
the party was really fun. As the sun
went down it got pretty dang cold.
Landen was pretty much confined to the stroller since he couldn’t crawl
on the gravel. He eventually fell asleep
until we decided to head back to the hotel.
Sunday, July 22nd
We woke up
Sunday with a little bit of foreboding … we were really worried that Landen would
give us a repeat performance of the drive up.
We got our act together though and started preparing to leave. It took awhile to get everything packed up
again. Then we got to haul it back out
to the car. We were hoping that Landen
would sleep more this time. Fortunately,
he did sleep a little more. Unfortunately, we hit a ton of traffic. We stopped at a park in Goletta and had a
little picnic on the grass.
After getting
back on the road and hitting more traffic I knew Landen wasn’t going to make it
all the way home without another stop.
We decided to pull off the freeway in Northridge and stop at my
Grandma’s for a visit. She was over the
moon to have us. We stayed for a couple
of hours and had pizza for dinner. We
finally piled back in the car and headed home.
Landen dozed off but woke up when we were twenty minutes out and was not
happy. He started the crazy crying thing
again. We decided to just push on and
try to get home as quickly as possible. (Looking back on it now, I think he was
probably hungry so we should have stopped to give him a bottle.) We finally pulled in the driveway and got him
out of the car immediately. Once again,
he was happy as could be as soon as we picked him up. Luckily this time we made it to our destination
without any vomiting!
See how red
my eyes are from crying? I’m so happy to be out of that evil car!
It was a good
trip but John and I decided that for the foreseeable future, we aren’t taking
any road trips longer than a 2 hour drive away.
It’s just too stressful.
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