Hi everyone! It’s Josh. The final day of our Southern States road trip was a ton of fun, and was probably my favorite out of the whole trip. We stated the day with a bit of a sleep in, intentionally skipped breakfast, and then headed over to Mrs. Wilkes, a southern homestyle dining restaurant. Mrs.…
Our first day in Savannah started with the boys sleeping in as Halle, Rusty and I headed to the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters. It was such an interesting tour. One thing I really liked was the fact that they were very careful with their words. They always said enslaved person instead of slave. They…
Rusty here: I was in charge of the Montgomery day. It started with breakfast at the hotel and then we loaded up the car and started walking. First was the Rosa Parks bus stop which was right across the street from the former slave market. For whatever reason, the streets were deserted this Saturday in…
Blake here: Our day started by going to Surry Juice for breakfast where you could get a variety of breakfast foods and drinks of a combo of your choice. I got this massive breakfast sandwich and josh got biscuits and gravy which he was super excited about. We also got this banana foster french toast…
In keeping with Tradition, each kid gets to write the blog post for one of the days of the trip. Here’s Halle’s : We started off the day at Mardi Gras world, where we got to try the iconic king cake (which is probably better not from a box)(and mom REAAALLY wanted to get the…
We have been so excited for our Southern Road trip! We are going to cross so many States off our bucket list. It began in New Orleans. It was fun to fly over all the swampy Bayous and get our first-ever look at the Mississippi River. Our flight landed, we took a very long shuttle…
Winter vacations to the beach are just the best. This year we left the boys home alone! I was nervous about it–I knew they could handle it–it just feels scary to be that far away from them. They did awesome. Blake missed the bus one morning, but he called Carlie and got it all sorted…
This was kind of a hectic trip. And NYC felt more gritty than it usually does. I didn’t really notice that in April, but maybe that’s because the weather was bad? We were also all pretty tired. It was hard to muster the energy the city requires. We didn’t really have many plans going in.…
Oh my goodness–I am not going to do this trip justice because I’m in a hurry to get this done. Kasey, if you read this, send me your journal entry :). Here’s what I’ll say–We ate the BEST food. Seriously…I think it tops NYC. We didn’t really make any plans, and EVERY SINGLE thing we…
The weather has been terrible the last few days. Our plan was to hike the volcano on Sunday evening. But they closed access because the weather was too bad. They said they’d make a decision about Monday in the morning. After the volcano tour was cancelled last night we decided to get up at 6am…
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