Success

We packed the night before, and woke at 6am. We were on the road by 7:45am.

We had a successful adventure at Story Land. It took us two and half hours to drive up through the White Mountains, what a gorgeous day full of sunshine and cool air. They girls kept saying look at the mountains Mama, aren't they pretty. Edie (who sits in the middle would say ooooh wow.
Reagan chatted the WHOLE time up in the car asking lots of questions, singing, and telling stories. Her sisters slept. She had a mini meltdown at the main gate. Totally understandable, I felt a bit overwhelmed. We entered through this brightly colored crooked little house with crooked doors and windows, with LOTS of people, commotion and noise. Once inside and out of the buggy she was fine.

On the way home Aubrey was the one who stayed awake, and chatted ALL the way down to Concord. Eventually the three of them slept at the same time.

Round trip was 222 miles. The kids did great. We did great! The twins walked all day. They had fantastic behavior and we had loud clapping in the car at the end of our adventure to celebrate the good listening and staying with Mom and Dad. They didn't run off, and stuck close to us, asking ALOT of questions! Here are some pictures of our adventure, the highlights...

We found our way to Cinderella's castle. NO-ONE but Mommy shook her hand. They did take a picture.

Aubrey was a little excited. We wound our way through the park, surprisingly it wasn't to packed, we strolled around and took our time watching the train and finding it all sunshine and smiles as the girls saw and experienced things for the first time. It was beautiful.

Here they are exploring the inside of a giant pumpkin. We checked out a couple of the rides we thought the twins would be able to do. But they went a little faster than I felt comfortable putting a two year old on. They didn't ask to go on them, but enjoyed watching them. There were lots of storybook tales they could interact with and we were thrilled to experience this as a family.

Again, the twins trying to fight their way out of a small space at the same time:)

Edie had a good time too, she enjoyed riding around on Mommy's back all day. Enjoying cool sips of water and tart lemonade. (She weighs 22lbs by the way!) We tried putting her in the stroller a couple of times but she wasn't comfortable with it. She wanted to do what her sisters were doing any time she was 'out' of any type of restraining contraption. She and I would hang out in the shade and take our shoes off feeling the grass under our toes and the sun on our faces while Todd and the twins would explore.


This attraction is called Professor Bigglesteps Loopy Lab.
It was this dome and inside were all these vacuums and blowers. You would feed balls into boxes, tubes, tunnels and funnels, and they would shoot out all over the inside of the dome raining down on everyone. It was a Styrofoam shower of blue, green and pink. There were handheld shooters on the second level. It was absolute mayhem and all three of them loved it. Belly laughing and giggling.

Edie just stood in the middle and squealed. Reagan sat in one spot feeding one machine and watching where the ball would blow out. Aubrey was running all over just delirious from the chaos.
Here is Reagan sitting still amid the chaos.

The ride home we had to stop three times to adjust, get snacks and drinks. The kids ate a great dinner and went to bed early, as did we. We felt success and it felt good to know we can finally go places and have a great time.

The web site said to plan 6 hours for the visit. We made it four hours, not to bad!! Well worth the drive and the memories.
Where to next?, you ask. Well Todd is on vacation this week, we are going to set up a schedule of adventures that include the beach, the lake, a hike, mini golf, and maybe a few other fun family adventures.

Stay tuned....