We left Thursday morning"ish", drove to Roanoke where we picked up the rental van. (One thing I didn't consider on my Cheap-Skate Car Rental post was this: paying for parking at the airport, since this is where I am renting the cheap van from... that will add up to about $70.) From Roanoke, we made it to Nashville before we cashed in some Holiday Inn points for a free hotel room. It was about an eleven hour drive the first day. Friday we drove ten hours, stopped in Seminole, OK to catch the local fireworks, and then continued on our way. We arrived at destination Ada, OK at 10:30pm. All-in-all, it was about 21 hours in the car.
The girls did great. The week before we left I splurged $20 at the Dollar Tree and bought new toys and activities (mostly Princess themed...). I also bought two plastic boxes, one for each girl. So we were ready. The first hour they decorated their boxes with stickers. We declared them their "road trip boxes," and each time they got something to play with or do, they would put into their road trip box. (Madeleine even pilfered away half a bag of chips in her box for later.) Each hour or so they would get a new surprise, the next hour a snack, then a surprise, then a snack, then a surprise... You get the picture. By the end of the road trip, they each had a pretty full road trip box, and we only stopped at a restaurant for one meal the whole 1200 miles.
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