The Lock Family: Spring!

Super Dad - I'm pretty lucky.

It's spring! Yes, the snow has melted (all directly into the river apparently, although we're nowhere near the real flooding, so thank goodness for that), the playground (or as the neighbours call it - the park or Lockland) is open, the trailer is untarped and it's time to clean to 6 pounds of cheerios out of the car seats after a long winter.

We had a wonderful Easter, combining old traditions with new ones - the Port Stanley steam train ride became a monorail ride at the airport, the walk to the bakery for Spicer's cookies became a walk to the Lonsdale Women's Institute (magically still for Spicer's cookies - thanks Mom!) and our usual 3 easter egg hunts became 5 - but I can't complain because the two new additional ones were set up by the kids FOR the adults and involved hiding cans of beer around the house - all their idea, but much appreciated none the less. We decorated 4 dozen eggs and even had a new category in the egg voting - most harassed egg (honourable mention to the poor egg Heidi dropped more than 20 times, but valiantly kept on colouring and dyeing and colouring and dyeing). We even squeezed in a wonderful night at Great Wolf Lodge to kick the whole holiday off.

So with the ground thawing, it's time to turn our thoughts to our Route 66 - Grand Canyon - Utah - Epic family road trip! We are starting to pack in bits and pieces and I will hopefully squeeze in another post before we go. Rob, the twins and Blaze will head out a week before Brendan and I, driving Route 66 west bound in 6 days (well at least that's the plan!). Bob will meet them en route to act as navigator and DVD movie changer extraordinaire. Then Brendan and I will fly into Las Vegas (the far western point of the trip) the day Bob flies back home and begin a 10 day tour through Utahs National Parks and cruise back along Route 66 in a slightly more leisurely 8 days. Gonna be memorable! I'll take pictures.