Time To Hit The Road!

It's time for our summer adventure trek out to MN again! Have to say that I was much more relaxed this year with planning, not really securing lodging till a week ahead of time and figured out stops a few days ago. Day 1 was from Newport RI to Madison NJ. We stopped at the Roger Williams Zoo to pick up our new member card and then Livingston NJ to have dinner and hang out with my cousin Diana's family finally arriving with two sleeping children in Madison. The weather today was incredible, Down pours paired with numerous thunder and lightning storms. Took us 7hrs to make a 4hr trip, oh well hopefully tomorrow will be sunnier :) The kids had a fantastic time playing with their 2nd cousins 3 boys 12, 9, 6 they enjoyed some delicious jersey pizza and some homemade cookies. It doesn't get much better then that after being trapped in the car for such a long day. We did see a flat bed semi stacked as high as if it had a container on it with bee hives the hole length of the bed covered in a huge net and loaded with bees, It was very interesting! Tomorrow we are head across the great state of PA , landing just outside of Akron OH for the evening. We are all excited to hit Knoebels adventure water park tomorrow as our fun activity of the day to break up the drive. Mommy is looking forward to getting away from the crazy east coast traffic and into farm country where there is nothing exciting to slow us down! Kids are excited that the hotel we'll be staying in tomorrow night has a pool. we'll be enjoying it in the evening as a great way to get out some energy. Good night all time for mommy to get some shut eye before the troops rise bright and early.