Interesting tidbits from our vacation

• the trip added nearly 6,000 miles to our car's odometer
• Ohio and Missouri were my favorite states to drive through...sorry Texas, couldn't wait to leave your state!
• We paid $1.59 for gas in Missouri (we currently pay $2.09 here in NY)
• Andrew would have played outside all day long if we had let him. Poor kid is cooped up with our cold winters!
• Andrew and Austin loved that I let them jump on the hotel beds. =) It's vacation right?!?
• Andrew sat on Ben's chest one night and read Ben's shirt..."A, R, I, Z, O, N, A-that spells shirt!" LOL
• Austin soon learned that he could tell me he was thirsty in the car (we used sippy cups to limit spills) by pushing his cup through the space in my headrest!
• My kids could watch Veggies Tales, Boz the bear, Cars, and Elmo for hours-and yes they did (it's vacation right ?!?)
• My husband and I witnessed police aggressively arresting a man in Tempe (outside of Phoenix)
• Ben saw a black bear while driving (I was napping =( )
• I am SOO sick of eating McDonalds. We must have drove by hundreds of them.
• I am seriously thinking of writing to Burger King and asking them why they sell 'Kids Meals' if not one of their restaurants we ate in has a changing table!
• We got stuck behind snow plows in the mountains of AZ. Get this: the police escorted the drivers behind the plows because there was a 1/4 of an inch of snow on the ground! 25 miles an hour for 30 minutes! We got a kick of out that.
• We stopped in New Mexico for dinner while it was windy/snowy out (no snow was sticking to the ground) and the waitress asked if we were 'waiting out the snowstorm'. It was so hard not to laugh. We had to tell her we're from NY, this is our fall and spring!
• Austin wet the bed (sleeping bag) every single night while we were gone. Due to wearing spring pj's, he was able to flip himself up out of his diaper in the middle of the night. We're seriously looking into special needs pj's if he still is doing it once we start wearing spring pj's here.
• We stayed in Nashville for a few hours to site see. We loved it and plan to return some day! By the way, Hard Rock Cafe charges an extra $3 per topping on your nachos. We won't do that again!
• I got to play the card game 'Spoons' with Ben's family. So much fun! I had bloody knuckles and I accidentally scratched Ben!
• I played scrabble with my mother-in-law (an English teacher) and my sister's-in-law (smarties) and I won. Whoo hoo! It's an ongoing rivalry with us!
• I got to see the Arch in Missouri for the first time and can cross Kentucky off my list of 'states I've never been to'!

I'm sure I've forgotten something but oh well! That's our trip!