Road Trip!

tWe're here!!!  Fort Belvoir, Virginia.  A few weeks ago, Hubby wanted to know if I wanted to hit the road for a road trip and I was like, "You had to ask?!".  It seemed like it took forever, we left "down home" in a snow storm Thursday and arrived last night at about 7.  Thursday morning we hit a snow storm, putting our state into a state of emergency.  How funny is that?  A state known for snow, panicking when snow comes.  They did get 12" of snow in the southern part of the state.  Us northern staters don't blink with 12".

Anyway...back to the road trip.  The girls are great riders.  They don't complain much.  There were a few, "When are we supposed to get there"'s, and since the GPS was set, I could tell her.  Wow, technology has sure helped parents on road trips.  You should see my techno kids in the back seat.  Belle is playing Mario Karts on her DS while watching a movie, listening through headphones, and Ariel has her iPod out, DJing for us and watching the movie.  Belle kept saying, "Turn down the music, I can't hear the movie!"  To which Ariel replies, "Turn up your movie, I can't hear the music!".  Other than that, things were pretty peaceful.  The one thing I always struggle with in the car is trash.  Poor Belle had a nose that was running like a faucet and her tissues were everywhere!  Recently I saw on Pinterest a suggestion of using a cereal Rubbermaid container with a flip top lid for trash, lined with a grocery bag.  Wow!  Ingenious!  But did I remember to snag one of those babies before the trip....nope.

We stopped at the Army War College yesterday, it was right on the way.  Amazing!  We drove around to see the housing and the classrooms.  It looks like the classrooms are pretty much walking distance from most of the housing.  How cool is that?!?!  Have a I mentioned how excited I am for this adventure?  We hit the PX, not huge amount of selection, but they have a huge range of items.  You can buy a flat screen TV, sneakers, underwear, cold medicine and a bike, all at this store if you wanted.  Oh, and any uniform you wanted too, this is a PX, you know.

Today is going to be a lazy day for us girls.  My beauties are still sleeping, thankfully!  I'm almost done blogging for the day and I think I'll start a new book, The Help.  I tried to start is last night, but I fell asleep.  The rest of the week will hopefully entail trips into DC to the museums and all the fun that goes with big city living.