The Bean!: Naugle Family Travels - Summer 2011 Edition

Now that fall seems to be upon us and school is starting back up, I thought I would catch everyone up on our family vacations from this summer! Kaylee survived 3 trips and actually did really really well. Better than hoped, actually. I wrote about our first vacation to the Olympic Peninsula, where she had to endure HOURS and HOURS of being unjustly constrained in the car while her parents "claimed" they were "sight-seeing". (Her opinion, not mine!). Kaylee's idea of sight-seeing was exploring new hotel rooms. Crawling around uninhibited was SO MUCH FUN!

Our next trip was the annual family pilgrimage to Lake Chelan with Lance's family. We weren't sure how it would go because while the in-laws have an RV, everybody else sleeps in tents. We didn't know how Kaylee would take that situation. But my awesome mother in law took Kaylee overnight in the RV and woke up with her each morning. (THANKS VICKI!) Kaylee loved having so many people to play with and mommy and daddy enjoyed having lots of babysitters! The highlight of the trip was a sea plane ride to Rio Viste winery and back. We purchased them as birthday presents for Lance's sister and mother. I thought Kaylee might be freaked out by the loud plane but she actually seemed to enjoy it quite a bit!

View from the Sea Plane

Yay!

Flying is fun!

Ground Control

Lastly we took a last minute trip to Toronto. We found out that Lance's older sister and family were visiting Toronto on a working vacation from Milan. They invited us to come visit them. Since they live so far away, we usually jump at the chance to see them. Especially since their daughter, Indigo is exactly a year older than Kaylee. They actually have the same birthday! But I was really really hesitant to fly with Kaylee. She has never been one to fall asleep in our arms, so I had no idea what she would do on the plane once she got tired. But she did really well, managed to fall asleep and charmed all the other passengers and flight attendants. Whew.

We wanted to use our airline miles to make the trip affordable so we had to fly in Cleveland and then drive to Toronto. The bad part was the 5 hour drive. But the silver lining was we got to visit Niagara Falls and partake in my favorite activity: wine tasting. We did wine tasting in Niagara and in Ohio. Ohio wines...who would have thought!

Niagara Falls

Toronto was a lot of fun! It is actually a pretty cool city and it was so much fun seeing the two girls together. Kaylee loved having an older kid around and Indigo loved having a baby to play with. Indie was so good at sharing with Kaylee. And actually the bigger miracle was we managed to fit 4 adults and two toddlers into a one bedroom tiny apartment relatively stress free! HAHA!