This past week, my wife and I took our kids (Ryan, 2.2 years old, and Nathan, 11 weeks old) on a 5 day vacation to North Conway, New Hampshire. This is the first vacation that we’ve been on that didn’t involve visiting family since Ryan was born.
Wow. Vacations are VERY different now. Forget about relaxing. With a two year old, that doesn’t happen. I’m exhausted. It’s quite nice to be able to sit down at my desk and type this. There also isn’t any way to “pack light” with an infant. The two little folks easily had 3x the amount of “required stuff” than Julie and I.
All in all, it was a good trip though. We took the kids to Storyland and Ryan had a great time. Storyland is geared toward the younger kids. There were only 3 rides in the entire park that Ryan was too small to go on (by an inch). He loved the train. We rode around the park on the train 3 times. We also did a scenic railroad tour so Ryan could ride a real train. We bought him a “Thomas the train” watch so he could have a watch like Daddy. (the fact that he cannot tell time is irrelevant) We took the tram to the top of Cannon and climbed some rocks and stuff up there. On the way home, we stopped at the Polar Caves and did some spelunking. Ryan wasn’t too impressed with that. After the first cave, he didn’t really want to go into the others. Making Daddy climb the 87 steps to the observation platform was fun though. (my legs hurt now) 🙂
One thing I learned: before we leave for Thanksgiving/Christmas trips, we need to buy the entire series of Backyardigans on DVD. If I see “Samari Pie” or “Mission to Mars” one more time, I think I’m going to go nuts.