No photos from our goodbye.
Adults up at 5:00 A.M.  Kids up 5:40 A.M. 
Packing up.   Loading up.   Piling in. 
With some breakfast thrown in. 

Everyone knew what was coming next. 

Driveway hugs and holding back tears. 
Fast goodbyes before it got too hard.
Man – what a hard, hard way to start the day. 

Questions that we don’t know the answer to:
How was it our family of 8 merged in effortlessly? 
How did we have so much fun without a Major Destination?
Will we ever get the chance to spend this kind of time together again?

James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

 

 

 

Our ride to OR was supernaturally gentle.  While many may attribute the absence of arguments to abundant technology, I believe we were blessed.  SO MANY PEOPLE have been praying for our travels.  I was not fearful when we piled into the van today.  Although we had 723 miles before us, very little sleep behind us, and supercharged emotions amongst us, the ride was wholly pleasant. 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah, baby.  We “need” one of these back home!

Check in.  Swim.  Off to bed and blog.

This is the only hotel on our trip where we had to have two rooms for 4.  John’s points covered it, though; and they “upgraded” us to two mini-suites.