After dinner tonight with Po Po and Kun Kun, we drove here to Massanutten, a Shenandoah resort area. Zack had some trouble on the drive, demanding first that we help him get the "stuff" out of his nose (several tissues failed in this quest, and were returned to me, wadded up and unwanted). Then he wanted to take his sweatshirt off and then to put it back on and then he again complained that he couldn't get the stuff out of his nose. Long car rides are tough ...
Luckily, Sam slept through most of it and, when she did awake, allowed me to sit next to her and stroke her face with my hand, lulling her to sleep with poems. I was eventually able to hypnotize Zack to sleep by slowly counting 99 consecutive road stanchions. Amie, meanwhile, drove the two and a half straight hours without a break and got us safely to our destination. We look forward to exploring our surroundings tomorrow.
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Tidbits from earlier:
"Daddy! Daddy! There was a monster In Sammy's room but then it disappeared! You know why?" I allowed that I did not. "Because it was in our imagination!"
As I took leave of Zack last night, I said,
'I love you, Zack. Sleep well. I look forward to making you breakfast and playing with you in the morning.'
"And then I'm off to Boston," he said matter-of-factly.
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