Travel & the Girls...

Well, in a nutshell Cara, the girls and I are back.  We drove over 8000 km, spent nearly 100 hours together in the van, crossed the border 6 times, got harassed once, swam in all 5 Great Lakes, almost died once (not my fault - a semi jack-knifed in front of us with no shoulder & a cliff beside me).  We learned many things, including the long driving days aren't bad, we just need more time between the long stretches, that and International Falls sucks.

We took over 400 pictures so eventually we will either corner you for 6 to 8 hours while we show you every nook and cranny between here and Cooperstown or we will eventually blog a few 10-15 picture segments...

So to tide you over here is a few pictures, and the sad news of Frances graduating to the 5-point harness and Teresa moving to a newly procured booster chair in the van...

Last night Kris, Susan & Anika were over and it was bedtime for the girls.  I asked Teresa if she wanted to give Frances the bottle (much to Cara's initial chagrin) and both girls loved it.

That is now Teresa's smile.

Yeah, that's right.  We saw it.