Where do I even begin??!!

Let me start of by saying that I tried to blog while we were gone, but it wasn't working, the computer and we only had working internet at 2 of out 5 spots.

We had the most amazing time, honestly, it was awesome. Our first real family vacation in a very long time!! We were gone for 12 days in total. We surprised the kids and left Friday after hubby got home from work. They thought we were leaving early Saturday morning! They were soooo excited, I wish I would have videoed it. We drove about 6 or 7 hrs and stopped in Fort McLeod for the night, and slept in our vehicle....ya, we won't do that again. I think I only got 3 hrs of sleep. The kids fell asleep about an hr before we stopped...but as soon as we stopped they woke up, ya, at nearly 1 in the morning, all 4 kids were awake in the back seat. My darling hubby crashed as soon as he put the truck in park! So here I was with 4 wide awake kids at 1 in the morning. I tried to fall asleep for well over an hr, and was almost in tears at one point cause I was mad at myself for not planning on getting a hotel room. But if I were to do it over again, I think I would do the same thing, it was an experience, one that we had to experience in order to decide never to do it again with 4 kids!! We all eventually fell asleep, and at 6am were ready for our second day of our journey!! By the time we reached our hotel room in Abbotsford, we were in the truck a total of 27hrs!!! We were ready for a 'break'!

We had an amazing trip, no one got sick, even though hubby started the trek with strep throat. We all remained healthy and no one was severely injured, a scrape here and there was it. We had fun hotel rooms, almost all with kitchens! We did well with eating out too. That is a big kicker for money, besides gas. We managed to eat out once a day for over half the trip, 7 days, and for 5 of the days, we only had 2 meals out.

I could go on forever, we saw Orca's, a few Grey whales, sea lions, 3 bald eagles, on the ocean. We went to the Vancouver Aquarium, a Roughrider away game, enchanted forest, skytrek adventures, had supper at my husbands cousins restaurant in Banff, went to Drumheller and climbed the largest Dinosaur in the world, walked on a suspension bridge, went to the most amazing concert I've ever been too, Chris Tomlin. It was so much fun. I can't even begin to choose what pictures to share....maybe I will make an online photo album or something, I will let you know!!

Tuesday we get back to our regular scheduled day to day life, and dream of our next vacation.

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all, safe travels!!!