We're all getting into the rhythm of our daily routines. At the beginning of our journey the conversation in our car rides started out with Sydney and Eric having rousing debates about who was uglier or who was dumber to (more recently) Sydney actually quizzing him on multiplication and the two of them making up a game about Star Wars. Now that's progress!
Couer d'Alene has been a great destination to start our trip! We took a hike around Tubbs Hill which had some unexpected finds. There were hidden beaches with crystal clear water and we even got to walk across a suspension bridge during our hike. If there was one word that would describe this hike with our children that word would be "breathtaking!".
We also took a sidetrip to Kellogg, Idaho and took a ride on the highest gondola in the world. It's a 25 minute gondola ride up Silver Mountain and the view is incredible! Once at the top there were hiking trail and even some snow that the kids enjoyed "mining". It was so hard that they decided to just kick it to chip away at it. They didn't want to leave but eventually we had to head back down the mountain.
I realized that I haven't really talked much about actually being on the road so I've decided to have Sydney be my guest blogger to give her perspective of what it is like to be on a roadtrip when you are 12 (and a half!) years old. Here's what she has to say:
What I thought when I heard we were going on a 2 week road trip:
UHHHHGGG…..road trips are rrreeeeaallly boring because all you do is sit in the car for like 5 hours and can only get out once or twice and then you just have to get right back in the car and drive for 20 more hours until you FINALLY arrive SOMEWHERE, hopefully to a decent hotel or something and then you’re starving and tired and there’s nothing to do and you’re really bored and all you want to do is watch TV but your parents drag you on a hike and you’re melting! Up and up you go and you just want to go to bed but you have to keep walking and then you wish you were back in the car and then you get thirsty and groan and when you finally get back all you want to do is sleep but you end up staying awake half the night because your dad won’t stop snoring so you have to kick him or throw a pillow at his head so he will stop snoring and you can FINALLY get to sleep….
Couer d'Alene has been a great destination to start our trip! We took a hike around Tubbs Hill which had some unexpected finds. There were hidden beaches with crystal clear water and we even got to walk across a suspension bridge during our hike. If there was one word that would describe this hike with our children that word would be "breathtaking!".
We also took a sidetrip to Kellogg, Idaho and took a ride on the highest gondola in the world. It's a 25 minute gondola ride up Silver Mountain and the view is incredible! Once at the top there were hiking trail and even some snow that the kids enjoyed "mining". It was so hard that they decided to just kick it to chip away at it. They didn't want to leave but eventually we had to head back down the mountain.
I realized that I haven't really talked much about actually being on the road so I've decided to have Sydney be my guest blogger to give her perspective of what it is like to be on a roadtrip when you are 12 (and a half!) years old. Here's what she has to say:
What I thought when I heard we were going on a 2 week road trip:
UHHHHGGG…..road trips are rrreeeeaallly boring because all you do is sit in the car for like 5 hours and can only get out once or twice and then you just have to get right back in the car and drive for 20 more hours until you FINALLY arrive SOMEWHERE, hopefully to a decent hotel or something and then you’re starving and tired and there’s nothing to do and you’re really bored and all you want to do is watch TV but your parents drag you on a hike and you’re melting! Up and up you go and you just want to go to bed but you have to keep walking and then you wish you were back in the car and then you get thirsty and groan and when you finally get back all you want to do is sleep but you end up staying awake half the night because your dad won’t stop snoring so you have to kick him or throw a pillow at his head so he will stop snoring and you can FINALLY get to sleep….
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