Our Summer Vacations
With two under two, who wants to travel? I'm talking about with the kids. So this summer, Cumberland for Memorial Day and South Bend for Myla's first birthday were all we could handle. The trip to Cumberland was pretty uneventful. Megan slept all but the last 30 minutes and Anna had her first experience with a DVD player in the car so that kept her attention for 3 hours.

South Bend, on the other hand, normally takes about 4 1/2 hours to get to. For us, it took about 6. We left at noon planning to have Anna take her nap on the road. Big mistake. 2 1/2 hours into it, we had to make an emergency stop at a park to let her burn off energy and hopefully fall asleep. 45 minutes later, it worked. So if you're ever traveling to South Bend and need to stop with the kids, there's a great little swingset behind the church next to Lisa's Pie Shop on Route 31 right before Kokomo. Enjoy the slideshow!