on the road again part one

Our trip to Texas was quite the journey.  There were several times that I thought we couldn't make it and would have to just settle right where we were.  It was a tough drive but we had some fun along the way.

We started very early Wednesday morning.  We were really hoping to get most of our driving out of the way on the first day.  He had a trailer attached to the back of our little Kia Rio so the fastest we could drive was 55 miles an hour.

where's waldo? i mean where's baby kate?

At the beginning of the trip, we made pretty good time.  Katelyn slept for a while so I was able to sit in the front seat and talk to D.  We made one of our first stops in Helper which was a little bit out of our way.  We saw a billboard advertising "Utah's Tallest Coal Miner" so we just had to stop.

he was a really tall miner

Next, we made it to Moab where we stopped at the Hole in the Rock.  The Hole in the Rock was actually a person's home that had been carved into the red rock.  It is now a museum and gift shop and was full of random sculptures.  My favorite was FDR's face carved into the rock.

this is the site of the famous "the cactus bit me" story of my childhood

D and I totally thought that this was real for a minute

honoring FDR

this is only the gift shop - the actual house cost money to tour :(

just a foreshadowing of the longhorns we will see later in texas

fore!

D and I spent the trip looking for license plates from different states - we hit the jackpot with this one

When we made it to Albuquerque, Katelyn decided that she had had enough.  She was sick to begin with and got really tired of being in the car seat.  She started screaming at the top of her lungs; it was horrible.  I knew if we stopped in Albuquerque that we would never make the trip in two days so we really needed to make it to Santa Rosa.  I sat in the back seat with Katelyn and tried everything I could do to keep her calm.  We finally made it to Santa Rosa just after midnight and checked out a room in the creepiest Motel 6 I have ever seen.  Katelyn was so exhausted that she fell asleep right after she nursed and slept through the night.  We actually had to wake her up in the morning to get her into her car seat.

good night Katelyn