A couple of weekends ago I took Brynlee on her first road trip to California for Heidi's baby shower. The trip there on Friday was quite an adventure! A tanker truck decided to tip over on the 15 S right at the NV/CA line near the golf course where Jason works (right in the path of my travel to California). The highway was completely closed while they cleaned up the 41 gallons of chemicals that spilled...lovely! Luckily there was another way to go to pick up the 15 S even though it took me out of the way 1.5 to 2 hours (no big thing). We left the house at about 11:15 am and arrived at Heidi's in Santa Monica @ a little after 6 pm. We did have to stop a few times for miss Brynlee though and at a Target for a baby shower gift, so all in all not too terrible (could have been worse).
Santa Monica is beautiful! I love that you can walk everywhere and the weather is perfect! We took Brynlee to the beach and she loved sitting on the blanket in the sand, but she didn't love the water when the waves came in too much.
The drive home was much less eventful and we made it home in 4 hours even with 1 stop for gas. Brynlee slept pretty much the entire way home; she woke up around Primm and was a little restless the rest of the way home, but she did really well all in all! Now I know how she handled it, we can do it more often.
