Fall travel meep

[wordplay]

carrie: So just to keep it all straight
carrie: we have planned
carrie: Sept 30-Oct 1 - Cumberland MD
carrie: Oct 20-22 - Virginia
carrie: Nov 23-26 - Kentucky
carrie: December sometimearoundthe18th - NYC
M: Oct. 27 - Boo at the Zoo
M: Sep 24th - A's birthday party
M: Nov. 5 - Presumbably O's
carrie: halloween in general
M: Oct.14-15 or Oct. 28-29 Fearfest at King's Dominion
carrie: what an insane last half of the year.
carrie: By New Year's we're going to be EXHAUSTED
carrie: and then it just KEEPS GOING
carrie: that week around March/April - Atlanta/Sacto/Seattle/Van
M: March sometime - Maple sugaring

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I'm exhausted just reading it all, and that of course doesn't count all the little, one day things - the meetings and parties that will accompany the beginning of school, the everyday stuff. Autumn does this to me every year - it grabs me with its wonderful and drags me all over the place. It doesn't help that Halloween is just this insane time with children's activities, and that their birthdays are six weeks apart and on either side of it. The time between the beginning of school and Christmas is just one big blur.

That March/April week, by the way - the plan is for me to fly to Atlanta for the dezzikitty/jiggery_pokery nuptials at the same time that M takes the kids and flies out west to see his family. (Yes. I am making him fly from the east coast to the west coast by himself with the children. Yet another reason M should be the world's first atheist saint.) I'll join them after the wedding weekend for a day or two in Sacto, then drive up the Pacific coast through Oregon and Washington, ending up in Vancouver. It's a part of the continent I've never explored before and I am beside myself with excitement. I just want to DRIVE and SEE. Thoughts/recommendations/ideas? Stuff to read? Good city blogs?

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[wordplay.livejournal.com]

Yes, that - and also, it's a Day Out with Thomas. :)) The kids really want to go do that again, and I think it's almost the end of Thomas time for our household, which is a bit sad. So we'll go up there and do the train thing and hope to catch the first bit of autumn while we're there.

[vertigo66.livejournal.com]

My kids still like Thomas, as old as they are!

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

O is really quite over it, and A never really took to it with the mania that O did, so I think it's likely on the way out here. Every once in a while they still play "train wedding", where Thomas marries Lady and all the other engines attend, but she can usually only rope him into that when he's REALLY bored. :))