After all of our fun at Disneyland, we began our cross-country move to New Jersey. Overall, it took us 10 days, but 3 of those days were spent with our families in Chicago and Denver. I didn't know if I could spend that long in the car with a 3 year old and 9 month old, but it all worked out. We stopped every 1-2 hours for Lily to go potty or to breastfeed Claire, but we got there - it just took us an extra hour or two each day. I planned ahead and purchased some dollar store toys for Lily. She would get one or two new toys each day, depending on how long our drive was that day. On the way, we also planned on doing some fun activities and touring church history sites to help break up the trip. That made it a lot of fun. I'm going to document our trip as best I can so I'll remember in the future!
The first day we drove to Denver from Utah. We stopped in Glenwood Springs, CO for a longer break. Originally we planned on going swimming at the hot springs, but its pretty expensive if you're just going to be there an hour or two. We visited a park instead and played for a while. We got to my family's house that evening.
The 2nd day we stayed in Denver and rested. In the afternoon, our family + Sage went to the Denver Zoo. I really like the Denver Zoo and we had a great time and really nice weather. Plus it was great to spend some time with Sage because we won't be there when he leaves on his mission to Sao Paolo, Brazil next month.
The 3rd day we had our longest drive (11 hours) across Kansas. We stayed in Independence, MO at a Holiday Inn with a indoor waterpark. When we arrived that evening we went straight for the waterpark and had a great time playing in the kiddie pool. We went around together in the lazy river about 100 times...prolly. We ate dinner and then went to bed to get ready for our next day when we would begin our church history tour.
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