The beginning of our trip...

The children...excited and ready for the plane ride! This was Maddee and Annie's first and Carson was 1 year old last time he flew so it was like his first! The first plane to Minneapolis was VERY small!!(you can see it behind them!). They did great! Annastyn kept saying "Faster, faster" as we took off and began to climb! Madelyn was disappointed that there was no ice cream on board! I later thought that maybe they thought it was like a cruise, with tons of food choices! We landed in MN ate dinner and then had about a 3 1/2 flight to Phoenix. Annastyn was alseep before we took off and the other two followed quickly! The Phonenix airport was nuts, we had to get all of our luggage onto a bus, that took us to the rental car area, unload the luggage again go down down three floors to the car. It was all worth it though when we got the car. They gave us a brand new van with 2 miles on it, 2 DVD players, camera that sees behind you..heated searts, built in sun shades, digital radio....etc. Now we want a new car when we get home LOL! We drove from Phoenix toward Las Vegas, it was already about midnight this time (so about 3AM Louisville time) so we only drove about an hour. WE stopped in a quaint (Paul hated that word!) town that looked like it was a little western town. The hotel was all adobe and rustic looking. Again we lucked out with a suite with 2 beds and a sleeper sofa...YEAH!! We headed out early for Las Vegas. It is amazing, you are driving through mountains and desert and then you turn a corner and BAM there is the beautiful Lake Mead. Below is a pic!
Annastyn hamming it up!!!
Next on the road trip is Hoover Dam. Again you turn a corner and there it is!! You can see the white line which shows how much the water is down. They said there was more snow this year so it should be running down form Colorado and getting higher.

It is taking a while to upload pics so be on the lookout for Vegas pics!
Oh and it cannot be a Maynard event without sickness. I had teased that we should not have gone to co-op on Monday, because I was afraid of GERMS!! Well it happened! By Tuesday morning Carson was complaining of a tummy ache, he had diahhrea the entire plane ride here and it has continued on strong. I have always taught my kids to share and oh they do...so now Madelyn has it!! I did get some probiotics at a drugstore in Vegas and have been slipping them in the kids drinks!! I also got motion sickness on the plane and it worsened or I had the beginnings of the flu....because by Thursday I was having cold chills, headache and feeling I needed to throw up. I spent $50 in CVS getting probiotics goodies. I felt better within minutes of taking the medicine, it was wild! So with Carson and I feeling better, lets pray for Madelyn now!!!