For Spring Break this year we relocated an RV once again. Instead of taking one of the new factory vehicles from Indiana or Iowa, we found a shorter relocation from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City. That meant the perfect route to see Utah's Big Five National Parks. As much as I like picking up new vehicles I thought it would be nice to have a shorter drive so we didn't feel as rushed.  Day 1 - Las Vegas We started off our spring break trip in Las Vegas. When looking at hotels, I thought the kids would be blown away by Caesars Palace. It was somehow less than $200 a night, so why not? Scott wasn't sure about going out onto the strip at night with kids. Being that its spring break season there were other families out. And scantily clad women with their boobs hanging out. That's all hours of the day here.  We'd only briefly stopped by here during the day a couple years back. It was a short stop on our way from the Grand Canyon to Death Valley.  Brooke came back and raved a...

Another Spring Break can only mean one thing these days: Campervan Spring Break. Well scratch the campervan this time around. Get in the RV we're driving to Florida.   You know we love our road trips. Last summer, a few months after our first Campervan Spring Break , Theo said he wanted to go on another campervan trip. I asked where and he said to Florida. Never thought we'd be a spring break in Florida family, but here we are. But first we had to get to Elkhart, Indiana to pick up our RV. Instead of driving or flying we took the Amtrak Borealis service down to Chicago for the first leg of our journey.   We were a little nervous that our train would be cancelled. Just three days earlier all the Borealis trains were found to have corrosion. They had moved routes via the bus. Thankfully they had replacement trains by the time of our departure.  As you can tell Meadow is super excited to be cooped up in an RV with us for a week or so.  

  During the week, Scott finished up the floors. I just need to restain the railing, install new baseboards and it will be finished up here. iPhone photos don't do it justice. We'll have to wait on the baseboards. Brooke's dad says he's going to make them for us. The railing might need to be replaced. It's pretty small. We did our annual trip to the cottage for Spring Break. My dad has been up quite a bit since we were here last working on the upstairs. He wanted to show me the doors he put in.   I took a last minute half day at work to drive up here. Boy I'm glad I did, it started snowing heavily about a half hour after we arrived. We then awoke to this.

DAY 1 We flew to the West Coast to visit Scott's sister, Katrina, and her husband, Dennis, for spring break. We arrived in San Francisco at midnight there time, 2 a.m. our time. It was about 3:30 a.m. central time before we went to bed. Even though we went to to bed late Scott was super excited and woke us all up early. I developed a harsh cold before the trip and the plane ride didn't help, plus I was very excited to be in California for the first time in two years. Katrina made us smoothies and bacon for breakfast. Even Scott had some.  After Dennis made a quick stop for coffee we were on our way to a California adventure. They took us to see some Redwoods. The road up to the state park was very squiggly ( or winding) . We had to stop to take a break halfway so Scott and I could ease our stomachs. If I had gotten hot dog from Mr. Mustard, I wouldn't have kept that puppy in. We went to the Big Basin Redwood State Park . Had I known they h...