Well, we made it. And my sanity is still somewhat intact. We piled the kids in the car at 6:45 this morning and hit the road for Cape Cod. Fifteen hours later we arrived.
The trip usually takes 13 hours, if you drive by yourself. Add the kids (and many more potty stops) and it goes up to 14 hours. Today we hit unexpected traffic in Connecticut that added another hour. The traffic backup wouldn't have been so bad if it had come early in the trip, but at the back end when nerves are starting to get frayed it really stunk. Of course the problem really was the rain. It rained or was overcast for the entire trip (except for two minutes of sun in Massachusetts) so the kids couldn't get out of the car and run around at rest stops. Everyone was a little squirrelly by the time we arrived.
But...we made it. A week+ of fun in the sun (I hope), followed by a week in CT, then "back to the grind".
The trip usually takes 13 hours, if you drive by yourself. Add the kids (and many more potty stops) and it goes up to 14 hours. Today we hit unexpected traffic in Connecticut that added another hour. The traffic backup wouldn't have been so bad if it had come early in the trip, but at the back end when nerves are starting to get frayed it really stunk. Of course the problem really was the rain. It rained or was overcast for the entire trip (except for two minutes of sun in Massachusetts) so the kids couldn't get out of the car and run around at rest stops. Everyone was a little squirrelly by the time we arrived.
But...we made it. A week+ of fun in the sun (I hope), followed by a week in CT, then "back to the grind".
