Road Trip

We took our first road trip today! We had our first Post Placement visit with our social worker who lives in Spokane. She works from home and was willing to let us come on a Sunday! The plan was to leave our house at 7:30 and get to Aly's at 10:00. We actually didn't leave until 8:05 because it takes a long time to get 8 people out of the house and we forgot Addy's shoes so we had to come home to get them. Thankfully we were only 2 miles down the road when I said to Ben, "Did you get Addy's shoes?" He responded with, "I thought YOU got Addy's shoes." This happens to us all the time. :) Once we were at Aly's the kids were sent to play and all was going well. We answered all her questions, were told we were doing a great job... etc. etc. It was super low key and was really good to just get a chance to talk about all the transitions going on. She was being paid to listen and has heard it all before - it was great! The next part of the plan was to leave Aly's and go see Ben's cousins. The kids were SO excited to see them and couldn't wait! Addy had been asking every 10 minutes when we would see them... But just as we were winding things up Marta came to get me to tell me Danny needed me. He was green. It wasn't pretty. After several minutes of good-bye's we started loading into the car where Danny promptly jumped out and threw up all the over their street - and maybe a bit on my shoes. Poor guy! Change of plans. Do we go straight home (it is a 2+ hour drive)? Do we stop for lunch? Do we go to our cousins (and infect them)? After a bit of DISCUSSION we decided to try out Cabela's so the other kids could at least do something a little fun and we could grab lunch too. It was about 6 minutes down the road (in the other direction) but well worth the stop. Danny slept in the car and Joseph has a new favorite store! The kids loved it. Ben REALLY loved it! We will go back. We made it the rest of the way home with no more throw up. And really, it wasn't a bad "First Road Trip" after all.