Today was just a travel day. I decided to pass on visiting Microsoft, since it would mean more driving in Seattle for what is really nothing more than a small museum. We stayed in our hotel until around 10:00am to give the morning rush hour a chance to calm down and then we left and headed north. We took a small country road from Bellingham so that we could cross the border at Abbotsford and therefore miss any Vancouver area traffic.
From Abbotsford, we headed to Hope, where we stopped for lunch, before driving up to Kamloops and then Salmon Arm, where we stopped for the night. That puts us half way to Calgary, so we should be able to drive to Calgary tomorrow, where Sandra wants to take the boys to Calaway Park.Evan continues to be a challenge while driving. He woke up around 30km from Hope and had another meltdown and would not calm down until there was food on the table at Dairy Queen, despite being offered lots of different kinds of food in the car. He started screeching again not long after we left Hope, so we put Backyardigans on my laptop and let him watch that for the entire rest of the trip. That worked, but that is also as long as my battery will last - just under 3 hours. I'm concerned that he will start screaming as soon as we start tomorrow, and since we have a six hour drive, half of it will have to be made without a DVD playing. We're going to try and leave early so that more of the driving is done in the morning and see if that helps.
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I wondered if driving at night and letting them sleep in the car would work, but I remembered he hasn't been sleeping in the car anyway, so that's out I guess. We'll be thinking of you - hope to see you soon. Love you all!
Hey, that's our stomping ground!! We've been through that border crossing many times and driven that highway through Hope many times as well to see Craig's family.
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