Road Trip Day 2

Legoland was a success! They have fountain Pepsi! :-) Ezekiel whined most of the day, but really enjoyed all of the rollercoasters and really enjoyed building and racing a lego car. He got in the way of some older boys at times, but he had a lot of fun. Xavier said he enjoyed it all and he seemed to. He is very easy going and tries not to whine too much. Makenzie spent the day eating and sleeping, with short breaks to watch what ride her brothers were on.

We left the hotel about 9:30 and returned at 11. It was another long day. I'm glad this trip is only three days. Ulysses carried both boys upstairs to our hotel room in hopes of keeping Ezekiel asleep. It worked! We've got three sleeping babies. Tomorrow we'll be back in our own beds.

The boys favorite ride was a Himalaya type where they spun in circles forwards and then backwards and up and down on a track. It was nauseating. Luckily, I only had to go once since Makenzie needed to eat. Ulysses went twice, but I think the boys would have gone at least 10 times if they didn't need a parent with them. We've gotten old. :-(

Ezekiel was excited that they had a roller coaster like the Troublesome Trucks and has asked to ride those again tomorrow. We did not do any of the wet rides because it was just too cold. On our last ride of the day, it started pouring. Makenzie's stroller seat was a puddle and all three boys were soaked.

Our streak of getting lost is continuing. We missed our exit and had to drive 25km to get to the next one so we could turn around. Once we were finally on the way to our hotel, we apparently missed a speed limit change because we got our picture taken. :-(

My biggest frustration this morning was with Legoland. We chose this trip partly on a friend's recommendation, but largely because the website said all of the rides were based on age, not height. We have a very short, but very adventurous four year old. According the website, there was only going to be four rides that he could not do as a four year old. The first two rides we tried to go on said you had to be four, but they had a height restriction as well. Of course, Ezekiel wasn't tall enough and it started the day off a little rough. The last two rides he couldn't do were towards the end of the day and one of them had a junior version.

Most of the rides we had to do baby swap with which most of the ride controllers did not understand what we were doing with a baby in line. It was frustrating, but only delayed us once with a particularly grumpy worker. Makenzie did get to ride on the lego train. She was pretty excited - standing in the seat dancing for Ezekiel the whole trip. She just might be more adventuresome than Ezekiel! Amusement parks will be really crazy for us in 10 years.

I think I'm mostly rambling at the moment. It's too late. Pictures will come when we get home and get them on the computer.

Road Trip Day 1

A few notes so I remember...

- Makenzie is starting to get her own opinions and make them known. She does not like her hat (it might be lost at this point), she wants to walk always, she does not like the car anymore (she was done about 4:30, we left the house at 10), whenever we stop to go to the bathroom I should feed her, when we finally got to the hotel at 10, she would not let me out of her grasp, but went to sleep shortly after 11

- Ezekiel did his activities from his backpack all day with about 2 hours of sleep in the late afternoon

- Xavier did none of his activities in his backpack and slept about 2 hours in the late afternoon, he mostly just watched the beautiful scenery as we drove across Switzerland

- the German autobahn scares the begeebees out of me

- my stress on the autobahn does not help Ulysses drive any slower

- we were in 4 countries today

- there is a 7km tunnel to get from Austria to Germany that took us about an hour to get to and through (total less than 20km)

- we got lost in Austria

- I said "If they can just entertain each other until we get to Austria I'll be happy." How many of my friends have said that? Of course, then we got lost and they had to amuse each other until we got to Germany

- We failed on the directions every time we had to leave the major highway

- we eventually found Bern's bears, but I did not get to take home a stuffed one

- M was not impressed with jarred spinach, but it could just be because she wasn't on me. we'll find out tomorrow

- Instead of "Are we there yet?", Ezekiel asked "Are we in Germany?" all day

- Xavier is still the best traveler of our kids

- Ezekiel is getting better, but it was nice to let him know that he was just as bad (actually worse) as Makenzie when he was a baby. He had to be reminded often as he was telling her to be quiet most of the afternoon/evening

- Xavier is starting to show signs of car sickness, but a stop at McDonald's play place seems to cure it

- It took us over 4 hours to find a McDonald's (or anything of the like) on the side of the highway. We were ALL starving by the time we found one at 8

- Pictures will be posted when we get home

- We're off to Legoland tomorrow!