Day One… Traveling… and inadvertently engaging in illegal
activity…
After graduation parties and the recital, we decided to hit
the road the day before we needed to be in the Wisconsin Dells. Although our family is used to long drives,
sometimes it just makes sense to make a trip in smaller steps if we can…
Our travel day(s) are usually relatively uneventful. Miah slept for most of the trip, which is
sort of a blessing, because that means she didn’t scream the whole time, and
sort of … well… not a blessing, because that means she was ready to pull an
all-nighter when we finally made it to our lovely, catch six hours of sleep and
move on, Motel 6.
Our trouble really started with the toll roads. They were a little confusing, and before we
knew it, we found ourselves in the wrong lane… you know… the one you’re
supposed to ride in only if you
possess the magic “get out of tolls free” card… which we don’t… We didn’t even realize we had evaded a toll
until we got to the next one, managed to make it to the correct lane, and
observed the line of cameras by the other lane, no doubt snapping shots of
every license plate that passed… So at
this point, we’re thinking that they’ll send us a bill… and hoping they’ll take
notice of the Nazarene logo and family stick figures and realize that we really
did do this by accident…
I have to admit, though, that our other infraction was not
such a mistake. I can never really understand
why a family of seven cannot stay in one
hotel room. If you think about it, for
most of human history families our size have lived in smaller spaces, and in much of the world they still
do. We’re talking a handful of hours of
sleep here… not the vacation resort of our dreams… I am almost positive that we are also on
camera herding the gang into the room with our three sleeping bags. But in this case, I guess if it was really a
huge problem someone could have said something to us. We spent the first couple of hours trying to
express to Ian how important it is to use a whisper voice at a motel, where
other people might be sleeping, and trying to convince Miah that it was really
nighttime now, and she could go back to sleep.
In the end, we got up earlier than we’d planned and left at the
scheduled time to make it the rest of the way…
And now we’re looking forward to some waterpark fun with our
family!
Lisa
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