We started off going to the Lava Tube near Flagstaff for an adventure in a dark cave that took me and Dwayne about an hour and a half last time we went without children. For the first 10 minutes Andrea cried as it took her that long to move down 10 feet of rocks. I thought at this pace we should be out of this cave sometime next week. Eventually things started speeding up although Dwayne had to hold Andrea and Brandon's hand the ENTIRE time so he was completely exhausted by the time we got out of there. The whole hike took over two hours. We were most proud of Brandon because with his scoliosis we weren't sure if he was going to be able to hike the mile and half.
Our "cabin in the woods" hotel sucked. It was old, nasty, and so close to I-17 we could see it from our room. Unlike the picture this place was not the cozy, comfortable room it appeared. Within 5 minutes in the room the kids were all fighting and throwing all their clothes and pillows all over the place while running around like barbarians and locking each other out of the room. The beds had the thinnest sheet we ever saw and Dwayne was sure there was bed bugs "somewhere" on the bed. Why dirt came out of the bathroom faucet we may never know. Although I packed Aiden's bag, he had taken out all of clothes and replaced them with stuffed animals so he had to wear dirty pants the second day of the trip.
The kids bitched and moaned about food whether we got them some or not. "I don't like hamburgers!" "I don't want!" and "I'm not eating there!" were constant moans we heard yet like fools we spent over $200 feeding these whiny mouths in 2 days. My biggest disappointment is the cafe in Munds Park has been shut down permanently. I stupidly let the kids pick out what they wanted to do on day 2 of the trip and they picked Meteor Crater, so after eating at Coco's where Saige and Andrea announced the eggs were inedible and Saige said she was going to the bathroom to throw them up I took the wheel and drove us 20 minutes in the wrong direction before realizing I was on the wrong highway.
Saige began kicking Dwayne's seat from behind and he got mad and yelled at her to stop. She began crying hysterically and I told him she was trying to move her seat back. He turned to her to say he was sorry and asked if he could help her move the seat and she yelled she did not want him to do anything for her, she flew off her seatbelt and flung herself over the seat to the third row like an insane monkey. It took about 20 minutes of total meltdown before she finally calmed down.
When we arrived Dwayne practically flipped out that it was $65 for our family to see a stupid hole in ground. The kids were less than impressed and wanted to leave about 5 minutes after getting there. We forced them to go into the museum and watch a video before we left about 45 minutes after getting there. We made it back into Flagstaff where we stopped at Five Guys Burgers for lunch. Andrea and Saige refused to eat there so they just watched the rest of us eat our $40 lunch. When we arrived back it only took 17 trips into the house to remove the 2 days worth of trash and luggage we had taken on the trip. I'm not sure how one overnight trip would make 4 loads of laundry but it did. I made Dwayne promise we would not take the kids on another trip until at least January next year. I need a vacation from this vacation.
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