Drive and Stay

On the way to Edmonton we took two days and on the way home we took one. I thought the one day would be really hard but it was fine. The two older boys were awesome on the ride. They had their toys and we had a couple of dvds. Aiden would say "me bored" every once in a while but it was so cute that it didn't bother us. Christian didn't apprciate the drive so much. We had a few screams and howls - especially for a couple of hours on the long day. I'ld recommend doing it in one - it wasn't too tiring like we thought it would be and the boys were great. On our way up and on the way home we met with snow but everything went fine. Rich drove and I got to watch his speed (which he wanted me to do) it was great to tell him to slow down and have him thanking me:) We did see one car that went off the road.

We stayed at the travel lodge - don't recommend it. The room was about as big as two double beds - the doors were pathetic -you could see light all around them b/c of their openings, the elevator didn't work for most of the time ( five floors up) - which wasn't too bad - we got our exercise. Except we order from the restaurant downstairs and poor Rich had to carry this huge monster tray up with four plates of food, cutlery, condiments and drinks on it. He did a great job. When he took it back down the waitress took it from him -rounded the corner and dropped the thing. Anyways, it was a pretty cheap place to stay - it had a pool that was great for kids and a hot tub and it was very close to the mall. It didn't really matter where we stayed - we had a great time. Would totally do it again. It was great to get away from the normal routine of life.