The Drive

Emily's first fast food lunch

Snack Stop

We went to Boston last Saturday for Greg to attend a conference. We decided to drive up there since it should only be a 4 hour drive without traffic. We got on the road nice and early Saturday morning and made good time until we got a flat tire about an hour from our house. We've waited till Emily is almost 18 months old to take a little road trip and our first road trip with a baby we get a flat. We had a tow truck come out and change it and then had to sit for a bit while it got repaired. Around the tire store were a few fast food restaurants so we decided to make our unplanned stop worthwhile and had an early lunch. This is the first time that Emily has had a fast food meal! She had chicken nuggets and got mandarin orange slices instead of fries and had some milk. As far as fast food meals go, it wasn't too bad nutritionally. The tire stop cost us about 2.5 hours. After we drove for another couple of hours and Emily had napped a bit, we stopped at a Panera Bread an hour and a half out of Boston. Emily sat just like a big girl on the chair and held her tray and ate pieces of a roll.

We drove back on Wednesday and had a less eventful ride. We did end up hitting a lot of traffic towards the end of the drive. The ride was shorter, but nowhere near the 4 hour time frame that we had hoped for.

Emily surprised us and was a pretty good passenger. We tried to stop every 2 hours or so, before she needed the stop so that she could move around and get the wiggles out of her. In the car she kept herself well entertained with a couple of toys. We did let her have her Molly monkey that she sleeps with and she loved that, especially since Molly usually has to stay in her crib.