The following illustration can pretty much sum up my
experience...
Ok, ok, it didn’t quite go like that, but it was an
experience all its own. This past
weekend, we gathered the kids for our first beach vacation as a family of four
to the beautiful Outer Banks, NC! This was my first time going and I learned that
my hubby had been once before during college for a bird watching class. (I
swear, after 12 years with this man, I’m still always learning new
things!) Anyway, our first instance of delusion
was when we looked at the Mapquest directions which quoted a 9 hour drive and my
hubby so innocently says, “I can get us there in 8!” How cute was that? Little did we know that we would stop at damn
near every rest stop and it would actually take us a
