On the road again...

I have been blessed with a child who may just be the world's best traveler.

Alexandra and I left Connecticut on Thursday - headed for Washington DC on our way back to Illinois. It's not exactly on the way, but we have a lot of people we wanted to visit with in the capital area, so it's our regular ending to visits back east. We spent two nights in DC - got to see a number of people, but not all (sadly - I hate missing people when I get to town!) - and then we were on the road again this morning. In an attempt to replenish a few little items that had broken and/or disappeared, we also wanted to hit Ikea in Virginia on the way out of town.

FYI - Ikea is NOT actually on the way out of town. It is, if you're going on a different highway. However, if you're heading out the way we usually do, it's not. We discovered this before it was too late, though, and still managed to get over to Ikea.
Unfortunately (?) we chose to visit Ikea on the same day that RadioDisney was broadcasting from there. I say unfortunately because instead of the 45 minutes we would have taken at the store, we were there for more like two hours and 45 minutes.

I'm a sucker.

Alexandra, on the other hand, is a PRO at the RadioDisney contests. She won a Hannah Montana dvd game, a Jonas Brothers poster, and two movies on dvd. She had a great time dancing her heart out and (I think) trying to become famous over RadioDisney.

All of this excitement at Ikea, however, also meant that we lost a good chunk of travel time today. Which translated into a later arrival tonight in Charleston, WV. I commiserated with Alex as we drove that this trip tends to suck. It does. I know that. She knows that. It's a long ass trip - and it basically ends up being about three days in the car (one to DC, one to Charleston, one more home). It's hard to sit still for that amount of time - and you can only watch movies over the iPod so many times.

That being said, Alexandra and I agree on most music and so enjoy singing along to whatever playlist we choose - or cd - or whatever is on the radio.
There's no whining or "are we there yet" from Miss Alex.

So, we're holed up in our hotel room for the night, now, and I'm ready to pass out. Alexandra and the puppy are unwinding before bed and ... well, it's another day of driving for us tomorrow!