Today Oliver and I said a (very) sleepy goodbye to Andy at about 5:30am (well, I did, Oliver thankfully didn't wake up), and he headed to England for the week. Then after breakfast and some last minute packing, we embarked on the 8-hour journey to Maine. We actually made it door to door in 7 hours and 45 minutes this time, including a good 1:15 in stops, so that's pretty good!
When we left home, it was a balmy 68 degrees or so. A bit later I was surprised to see it hit 72. Then at New Haven, which was heavily fogged in, it was just 59. A half hour later or so, in Hartford, it was 79!!! SEVENTY NINE! At Lowell, MA, it was still about 74, but by the time we started driving through New Hampshire, which really isn't that far in the scheme of things, it was 44! Then it got back up to 50 or so around Portland and Brunswick, and back to 44 by the time we got home... it certainly felt different than when we left home in the morning!!
O was a great little boy... I had lots of different toys for him on hand, which sometimes kept him happy for a bit, and other times he rejected immediately. I had a big bag of treats and sippy cups with juice, etc, which also came in handy. He had a good long mid-day nap, and was only sporatically cranky, never for more than a couple of minutes. And he barely asked to hold my hand (for those of you that have have traveled with us, this is a big achievement, and a BIG savings to mom's aching arms and back). Towards the end of the trip, he was happily occupied for about 20 minutes playing with my empty water bottle with a cool flip-top lid. What a good boy! Extremely engergetic once we got home, after being restrained all day, and not too interested in eating or sleeping... but we managed. Grandma and Grandpa's house is just a big crazy plaything for him, and there are 3 cats here, not just one!
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Plus Matzo makes four!
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