The Overnight

After much debating, we chose to drive to Halifax overnight.  A 16 hour drive with a new baby and 2 kids with car sickness sensitivities is not something to undertake during the day... how many activities do you know that can safely occupy 2 kids if they can't focus on anything inside the car for more than 5 min without beginning to complain of carsickness?

All in all, I think the overnight experiment went well.  Ok, so the plan for parents to get extra sleep the afternoon before leaving didn't work out, the girls were so excited to start on this journey they stayed up until 1 am, and of course, at each stop to feed Aiden they both woke up...
But, we had no complaints of car sickness, and only one 2 hour period of over-hyper, restless strapped-in kids. Parents survived mighty well as well - a 4 hour layover in Meductic certainly helped there.

So, we are here and recovering.  The girls have already discovered friends and a trampoline in the back yard where we are staying so are not too interested in catching up on lost sleep or routine, Dad has slept all night and a lot of all day to catch up on sleep, and it'd better be Mommy's turn tonight and tomorrow, though somehow she doubts that will happen as she'd like it to...