ANYWAY, on July 3, we headed out on our big summer road trip. The car was packed with enough room to still see out the back window (an amazing feat) and everyone was excited to head out.
I packed things for the kids to do to keep busy in the car. I found this little pack of markers kept on a carabiner that I thought Camden would like and might actually help keep them all together. What I didn't know was that he'd use the markers to trace his hand on a paper and then get purple marker all across his face. Not too hard to get off, fortunately. Not the best picture, but you can sort of see the marker on one side of his face here.
Due to a few previous smaller road trip experiences, I worried Shelby would not make this trip much fun for anyone. She surprised us by being a very good traveler (most of the days anyway) and occupied her time with Bear, her water, some Color Wonder Markers, and a few beefy literary classics such as Brown Bear, Brown Bear.
On the evening of July 3, we stayed at a motel in Coeur D'Alene, annoyed some elderly patrons with our squirrely and tired children at the IHOP, and played at a local park. The next day was a long trip to Bozeman, MT and after not accounting for the time change, we were VERY behind schedule. Luckily, our hosts for the evening were very flexible and we enjoyed an evening with a friend from Matt's high school years in Bozeman. Camden got to experience his first trampoline (and first bloody nose), as well as his first sparkler and fireworks show. The neighborhood put on quite a show and we had a hard time leaving to head back to the motel for bed! We made it back to the motel just in time to see the last 10 minutes of the Bozeman fireworks show - and it was actually quite something to see.
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