Happy New Year, and a Holiday Recap
This is just a quick note to wish you all a (slightly belated) Happy New Year! We just returned from a trip to visit family (where we got a much-needed dose of snow) and are still recovering. All in all, things went very well.
We had actually planned to stay home for the holidays, but I snagged a great deal on airfare, so we decided to go visit the grandparents (on my side). And we actually managed to keep the nature of our trip a secret until we pulled into the airport!
We live about an hour and a half from the “big city” (and the airport) and the boys only knew that we were going on a fun trip to the city. They were under the (mistaken) impression that we were going to drive in and spend some time away from home doing semi-local stuff. Imagine their surprise when we ended up pulling into the airport and jetting of to visit family…
The outbound trip was uneventful, but tiring. We flew Christmas evening after having gotten up early for the usual festivities. But the return trip was a snap. We even managed to turn it into a nap flight for Son #4 (we didn’t push the sleep thing on the outbound trip since it was an evening flight and we wanted them to sleep when we got there).
So there you have it… We’re back, the trip was great, and we’re now settling back into our routine.
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I’m glad that the trip went well, and that you managed to keep it secret!
How did you handle the clothes and luggage? Prepack the car?
Comment by Blaine Moore — Jan 3rd 2008 @ 8:56 amNo, we had to let them in on the secret to the point that we were going to be away from home. But they thought we’d be staying in the city and doing stuff there. The flying out to see family bit was the secret.