Thursday morning, we took our time getting ourselves together. Breakfast was courtesy of McD's because we had run out of cereal and eggs to feed the troupes. After breakfast, Andy took most of the kids on a walk around the campgrounds while I packed up the camper. We loaded up the van and we were off!
A quick stop across from the campground to get at least one picture taken of the kids with a Santa Claus. You know, since we were in Santa Claus. (It was a really nice, sunny morning...maybe you can tell.)
Then, we went back to the campground because I realized I had forgotten our vacation magnets on the fridge of the camper. Oops.
After that, we stopped by the park in Santa Claus. It's a nice park with some fun things to climb on. Our purpose of stopping 1 mile into our trek home was to do a little geocaching. According to our app, there was a cache a little ways up a walking path across from the park. We looked, and looked, but could not find the cache. There was also a lengthy discussion of what a cedar looks like.
But, the littles had fun playing at the park.
We drove another 5 miles and then stopped to fill up the van's tank and pick up some water for our dying of thirst children. And, Andy and Cale struck gold on a geocache.
Then, we actually drove. We drove for the length of a movie the kids watched. Time for lunch after that. I don't remember the name of the town we were in, but Ewan and Liam both got to find a geocache here. We were getting pretty good at finding the caches by now.
Another movie, more driving and a bathroom break allowed us to geocache in the town of Martinsville. We were really trying to kill time so we wouldn't hit the interstate around Indy at rush hour.
Andy let me have a turn with the kids. Ewan and I found this one in a strip mall parking lot.
Marcus and I found one in a cemetery.
We drove some more, picked up dinner and finally made it home. Everyone was glad to get out of the car, especially Kinley. She did her best, but, by the end of the trip, she was over riding in the car.
We loved our vacation. The kids (and parents) had a blast, Pretty sure we will be going back next year for a little longer stay.
And, there will be a new roller coaster to greet us.
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