The Wedding Trip Day One Continued

Day One: Part Two

Our groom was busy barbecuing for his reception for the morrow, and we had to make our way to the Feast Hall on Faire site by way of the cut-through.

For some reason, we thought it would be okay to get the kids out and let them run around.

It had been a few years since we last worked cast out there, or the booth for that matter, so I had quite forgotten how much poison Ivy grows out there!

Luckily, my kids didn't find any, but they did get super hot super fast. Kaiden basically found his way to the joust field and was busy trying to figure out how to make his way down into the arena and get to the pretty lake beyond the stage.

Vivienne also loved the idea of being a joust maiden, and tried to find her way down to the bottom as well.

By this point, all three of my little people were turning a pretty bright pink color and really needed to go back to the car.

My friend had been soo very busy with his cooking, that he had quite forgotten to move the trailer that we were to be sleeping in, so we had to stay in the van and wait for the rehearsal to start, end, and the dinner to happen as well.

Thankfully, I was able to run into Magnolia for some chicken strips and fries and appease the little people for a time!

They were surprisingly good considering they were in the van for nearly 9 hours with only a few minutes of time to stretch their tiny legs.

After the rehearsal dinner ended, husband and our friend moved the trailer back to his home across the street from the festival site.

We had a bit of trouble finding a circuit that could handle the electricity of the trailer, but eventually we devised a system that involved knowing which breaker to flip should we accidentally overload it.

By this time, it was dark outside. Next, the babies got to check out what would be their home-away-from-home for a few days.

It was fun at first. They were good and seemed okay with the idea that we had their blankies and their teddies with us.

They even liked the different beds that the trailer had. I went ahead and set up the DVD player on the kitchen counter and folded out the sofa into a bed for the babies.

I was trying to make it as much like what they were used to at home as possible in hopes that they would understand that I meant for them to go to sleep there.

It took quite a bit of convincing, actually. Kaiden just suddenly laid down on his blanket and teddy in a little ball, stuck his thumb in his mouth, and started snoring.

Vivienne and Kian wandered around for a few hours after Kai went to sleep, trying to figure out how things were supposed to work. They were very confused at first!

Eventually, Vivienne dropped everything where she was standing, and went to sleep all but standing up still.

Luckily, I was watching her, and caught her in time to get her situated on the bed.

Kian finally laid down in the middle of the floor under the pretense of playing with his car and watching his movie and fell asleep there.

Husband was off to orchestrate the bachelor party, so I was left alone with my babies and my eldest who also nodded off pretty quickly.

I found a decent radio station to listen to, but I was super lonely and soon grew quite bored sitting there.

Since I hadn't actually been able to go inside for the rehearsal dinner, I had managed to miss eating dinner that night.

This meant that I had to go after some sort of food. Keep in mind that the nearest place to get food is in Magnolia, a town only slightly larger than the one we were actually in, and about ten minutes away.

The trailer electricity threw the breaker, so I reset it on my way out, leaving Bregon in charge with one eye on the kids, the other on the fuse box.

Who knew that everything in Magnolia must close at ten at night on a Friday? This meant that I would have to drive another fifteen minutes into Tomball to find food, which I really didn't mind.

So, off I went, only to find that over the course of the past three years, a highway had sprung up and been run smack dab through the center of Tomball, making things a bit difficult to find!

I finally figured out what was different, and made the necessary corrections and found some semblance of dinner.

Then I headed back to the travel trailer to eat, and try and find some way to amuse myself.

When I got back, the breaker had to be reset yet again, but it was still cool inside the trailer, so it was all good!

After I had eaten my very late dinner, I decided it would be nice to try and call a friend to keep me company.

There was just one problem.Out there, in the virtual middle of nowhere, I don't get any cell-reception.

I finally found 2 spots where I could get two bars of signal which was enough to dial out on.

Sadly, I would have had to found some way to levitate and not move to actually maintain reception.

It was okay, though, because the friend that I was trying to call didn't have any battery charge left.

What a silly pair we made that night! I finally gave up on the call gymnastics and went to sleep.

Husband didn't return until right at six the next morning. I know, because Vivienne had rolled out of bed and started to cry because she woke up standing in the middle of a strange place and did not know where she was.

When husband got home, she was busily snoring on his pillow, very happy and snug and content.

It was six a.m. on Saturday morning, and we had somehow survived our first night of my trio's first real trip.