Errands and Prep For Our Big Trip

After 10 years we are planning another Upper Michigan road trip. I was looking at a photo of the stuff we brought the first time and it was 1/8th of the amount stuff we are bringing this time. Our bedding alone takes up this much. But we have also evolved tremendously in the last 10 years. We used to sleep on a yoga mat and our sleeping bags were double the size.

The kids thought it was fun to play restaurant through the window to the porch.

We got just a few days worth of produce from the farmers market this time.

We also got the kids some popsicles and I had a hand pie (with carrot cake inside).

We spent most of the day running errands. Picking up paint and other house stuff from Menards, picked up travel tablets for a our fish and got a new backpack from Sierra.

Theo and I made pizza together and made some goofy faces apparently.

Theo asked to play on the Nintendo Switch, I told him he could if he cleaned up the living room first he could.

Breath of the Wild: Zelda time, as Theo would put it.

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