We picked up
Laila, drove the Jeep back to the Fairgrounds, and hooked everything up, including the car seat in the motor home. By 11am, we were on the road again, heading back to Lake
Havasu. Traveling with a 5 year old has it's challenges, but in a motor home with your own bathroom, and kitchen, it's much easier. With only a stop for fuel, we pulled into the driveway just as the sun was setting on the western horizon.
With only an occasional "are we there yet",
Laila and Grandma stayed pretty busy on the sofa, playing with her new
Leapster, and even reading the funny papers. Except for an almost 1 hour delay west of Phoenix, where I10 is down to one lane at a bridge reconstruction, the trip was pretty routine. When we got to the house,
Laila was ready to leave the confines of her car seat, and the energy flowed, uninterrupted for the next couple of hours. We watched part of a DVD movie - How to train your dragon, but toward the end, the interest turned more to finding out what
Sami and Gracie were doing. When asked how many times she had watched this particular movie, her reply was "about 100 times". Last year when we were visiting in Tucson, we took her to the movie theater for the first time, and this was the movie that we watched.
This morning, the sun is shinning brightly, and the weather forecast is for temps in the mid 60's. It looks like a cold winter storm is on the way, with Fridays highs of only the low 50's. I think we will take advantage of the good weather today, and find some outside activities that will use some of that endless, 5 year old energy.
We picked up Laila, drove the Jeep back to the Fairgrounds, and hooked everything up, including the car seat in the motor home. By 11am, we were on the road again, heading back to Lake Havasu. Traveling with a 5 year old has it's challenges, but in a motor home with your own bathroom, and kitchen, it's much easier. With only a stop for fuel, we pulled into the driveway just as the sun was setting on the western horizon.
With only an occasional "are we there yet", Laila and Grandma stayed pretty busy on the sofa, playing with her new Leapster, and even reading the funny papers. Except for an almost 1 hour delay west of Phoenix, where I10 is down to one lane at a bridge reconstruction, the trip was pretty routine. When we got to the house, Laila was ready to leave the confines of her car seat, and the energy flowed, uninterrupted for the next couple of hours. We watched part of a DVD movie - How to train your dragon, but toward the end, the interest turned more to finding out what Sami and Gracie were doing. When asked how many times she had watched this particular movie, her reply was "about 100 times". Last year when we were visiting in Tucson, we took her to the movie theater for the first time, and this was the movie that we watched. 
This morning, the sun is shinning brightly, and the weather forecast is for temps in the mid 60's. It looks like a cold winter storm is on the way, with Fridays highs of only the low 50's. I think we will take advantage of the good weather today, and find some outside activities that will use some of that endless, 5 year old energy.
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