Jump, Jump!!

This trip. Oh, this trip. We already know that Maggie remembers bits and pieces of our trip to San Diego from last summer, but this is the trip that she’ll forever remember most of. She’s sorting out all the places we’ve been and reminding us when we forget details. We have most definitely been on the move and are missing being in one place for an extended time. We may need a vacation from our vacation by the time this is over! 

My camera died just hours away from pulling into Chico Hot Springs and I was able to force it to get a few good shots before it officially died. It’ll take me a while to get over not toting it around the most important part of our vacation. Thankfully my phone takes okay photos – like these ones. 

We have done a fairly good job of not having too much screaming in the car and stopping at fun places – or making fun times at not so fun places. Today we finally reached our destination, after driving through a ton of rain, and unloaded the car’s contents in to the hotel room. I brilliantly made the suggestion that we practice jumping between the beds, which it took Mags and Barry about half a second to begin launching themselves between the two. 

I started trying to take pictures with my phone because it was hilarious to see the two of them. Barry also was taking picutres of Maggie as she launched from one side to the other, with Audrey in the background. I took a couple turns and we started to talk about moving on to our next activity (dinner? swimming? both?). Barry left to go refill our coffee cups in the lobby (since Maggie had a nap, we decided to partake in a later coffee date to keep up with her!) and was gone all of two minutes. 

Maggie decided to take a turn photographing me jumping between the beds and wedged herself between the two to get the best angle….that’s my girl! My previous jumps had not been up to snuff and so I really wound up for a big one. Turns out it was a big one alright, because in the two minutes that Barry was gone from the room, I broke the bed. Ummmm…..and Maggie got the best shot of my final leap. 

And that is how we make memories on this trip.