The Drive to Michigan Begins!

We drove to Michigan to visit Dan's family and celebrate his brother Joey's marriage to Megan. They were actually married in February, but decided to throw a party in the summer when the weather was better.

I was a little... o.k. a lot terrified at the idea of 25plus hours in the car with Morgan. We decided that we would stop in Branson on the way up and the way back. Morgan was a total rock star. I sat in the backseat and basically surfed the internet the entire trip. I know that we watched all of the Shrek's at least once... some twice. I was so sick of the 5 DVDs that we were traveling with. So, we stopped at Walmart and bought about 12 more. I'm now totally sick of those too. I'm Disneyed and Pixared out! But, it kept my little man quiet and happy. We did stop for all meals so that we could sit down as a family and stretch out. I didn't want to ask him to sit still for that long.

We went to a mini amusment park for toddlers in Branson. They had about 4 rides that Morgan was able to ride. Of course we tried them all!

He LOVED the teacups. We were both cracking up. Dan didn't want to get in there with him because he didn't think that the teacup was made for a 6'4" man.

He was also a huge fan of the swing,


Morgan begged to touch the bunnies and kept pointing to the bunny ride. He was totally unsure when it started off.
It didn't end well. Actually, he didn't even get to the end. I had the operator stop the ride when Morgan's meltdown began. Poor baby!