Funny Meeting You Here

First let me start off by apologizing for not posting for so long.  My family has been away from home for almost 3 weeks and rather than announce to all the world that our house was sitting vacant, I decided to go silent till we got back.

Now that we are back, I will take a few posts to recount our trip.

Traveling (especially traveling with kids) can be problematic.  Luckily we got the drama out of the way early.  We hadn't even made it 1/2 mile from our house when we realized we'd forgotten something.  So we decided to use a parking lot to turn around.  We were in our pick up truck so that would not usually be a problem, but we were towing our trailer.  That can make it harder to make certain turns.  The big issue was that we weren't counting on the sand along the edge of the parking lot being about 5" deep.  So hubby had to get out of the truck and put it in 4WD and after a bit of rocking back and forth we got out. 

Needless to say, we got a much later start than we wanted to that day.  Add to that the fact that kids and their bladders don't always cooperate with our plans and we were just hoping to get close to 1/2 of the way through our 900 mile trip.

Towing a trailer necessitates stopping strategically.  We can't use a drive thru for meals and we can't just park at a Burger King to use the bathroom either.  We've found that rest stops at the state line are usually pretty clean and has ample truck parking for us to fit in.

On our way into the GA welcome center bathroom, my kids pointed to a car in the parking lot and said, "Mom, I know them from Lego class."  I looked at the child in question and said, "It can't be them, but it does look like them."  On our way out of the bathroom, we walked by the car again and I saw the mom and guess what?  It was them!  What are the odds that we would see someone 250+ miles from our house.  And then to find out they were headed to Virginia as well (150 miles away from where we were headed).

When I think about it, if we hadn't had the delays in our departure, that wouldn't have happened.  Interesting how things work out.