What's All This About, Then?
(aka Your Many Questions Indelicately Answered)

(hint #1: scroll down and this won't be as hard to read. You're welcome.)

We go on trips. Road trips. Other trips. But mostly road trips. Sometimes (ideally) long ones. Sometimes not.

Yes, this is the same blog as the one about the Oregon Trail. Yes, it used to have a stagecoach and a dusty feel to it, which went along with the Oregon Trail very nicely. Yes, that was a great trip. That was three years ago. (the blog is still here if you want to read it...it starts here)

So...as we embark on the latest chapter of our roamin' ways, we want to invite you to come along. First, we might get lonely. I mean, we don't really get lonely much, but it's possible. Second, you might miss us. Third, you just might be nosy. And fourth, we are notoriously and and historically bad at sending postcards, circulating photos, keeping up with a scrapbook; as a matter of fact, with documenting our trip in most every way. We figured this might be the 21st century solution. It worked for the last trip, which was (as you know) three years ago (sniff). So we're keeping it going.

We hope you'll pop in, read about where we are, what we're doing, see photos of our adventures, and experience our gypsy hardships (like no room service) vicariously! Most importantly, we hope you'll add your comments and greetings, which we will get when we get to one of our stopping points. Souvenir requests will receive due consideration (Hint #1: Success is highly correlated with tackiness).

For those so inclined (you know who you are), we will also list links to related sites so that you can learn with us as we learn on the road, and maybe visit some of the same sights in the future!

Happy Trails to us all!

Love, Phoebe and Robin

Thursday, August 9, 2007

The Greater End of the Trail Report

Our second day!

I woke up and I was really tired. I finally woke myself up by watching TV. Betsye, get a load of this…I watched Little House on the Prairie about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life! It was very interesting.

Then I got ready to go out to the museum and we had lots of fun there. We watched a movie that was true of the pioneers. We went there for a couple of hours. For a lot of time I was trying to get a ring off of a puzzle toy that children played with a long time ago. There was lots of other games.

Robin here....Phoebe wanted me to tell this part about another toy. There was a toy that the pioneer kids played with which was a disk on a string that they would wind and turn it into a kind of whizzing horizontal yo-yo....Phoebe wanted me to mention this because it is the same toy that I played with when I was a child (my mom made, and continues to make, it out of a large button and some string) and which Phoebe plays with when we are visiting California!

And you got to pack your own wagon. And then we both tried on some pioneer clothes!



Then we went into the gift shop. And we didn’t find much there. But yesterday, we did find a postcard for Betsye. Then, we went out and drove the car into town and we got little miniature toys ("Mommy...explain what they are!") and we got some of the things that you would pack in a wagon for the journey west.

[Mommy explaining: There was a dollhouse miniature store in town, and they had many specialty items that were like covered wagon supplies--that's what we got]

We went back to the hotel to have a great time swimming. We did have a great time swimming! I jumped in from 6 feet, two times and then we went back and I did a dolphin dive and touched the bottom at three feet! Butt up, arms down—that’s the trick to do a dolphin dive! We got out of the pool and we took a shower.

Then we went out to a Mexican restaurant where they were playing music live. Betsy Martinez, if you’re reading this, the music was all in Spanish! And he said “Gracias” at the end.

Then we went back to the hotel, and now I’m settling down writing this and I’m up to the third task in Harry Potter.

Hope you get back to us soon.

Phoebe
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Enjoyed being with you on the Oregon Trail. You look like a real pioneer in that cute bonnet. Love, Apple Baby

August 10, 2007 at 6:05 PM
Eastbound Mama said...

This is Great, indeed! Phoebe, I love the pioneer outfit, and especially the bonnet. Did it make you feel a little like a real pioneer?

What an amazing swimmer you're turning out to be! A dolphin dive? I think I saw Jeff and Daniel doing them in the pool at Mt. Cranmore. Wow--you can do that? Very cool!

I love that the museum had the disk on the string that Grandma shows you when you're in California. Was that surprising to you both?

August 10, 2007 at 10:18 PM

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