ROAD TRIP!

So the day after the girls' dinner (the 5th I believe), we hit the road for Niagra (US side) to score some deals on clothes for Isaac and Elise. It was a little traumatizing for me to leave without my girl - but Papa and Grwanmia LOVED it!! I missed her terribly, but in the end it was much better for her to stay here as the drive was eventful.

I WILL FINISH THIS LATER... IT'S 1:00 AM AND I NEED TO GET SOME SLEEP

Okay... so I'm only finishing this A LOT later... lol but such is life.
So like I said... we hit the road with visions of deals dancing in our heads. It was good going for the first bit... I *think* we made to around Oakville before Isaac woke to eat. We pulled of the highway and right into a Tim Horton's (honestly, where else would one go?!) I fed Isaac while Mike waited in line for coffee and hot chocolate. Then with Isaac fed and burped, and seemingly content, we set out again. We made it 2 or three exits before having to stop again - that's what?... 10 mins? max? So again we stop... again I get Isaac out to feed him. We are parked in some abandoned warehouse parking lot. Mike decides to go for a walk... across the abandoned parking lot, down the side of the building... over to a small ravine... but I digress.
I finish feeding Isaac, again, and burp him, again, and get him set up in his seat. AGAIN.
Alas, we make it to the border... wait in line... Isaac starts FREAKING when we are only 2 or 3 cars from being checked through. The poor woman a the booth... I could see the pain in her eyes as Isaac's piercing screams shredded her ear drums. Needless to say she passed us through quickly with no questions. We stopped at the first exit off of the Queenston-Lewiston bridge. Did the feed/burp routine again... and once again we were on our way.
Alas, we reach our destination. Angels are singing and bells are ringing. Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it was nice to finally be there. We head right into the Carters store. Then the angels really did start to sing! haha The sales they have there are so crazy. We have a Carters here, and there are seldom to never sales. If there are, its on the stuff that is going out. But there.... there are sales on EVERYTHING. Everything. It's to comprehend a 50%+ Off sale on brand new items. Mind boggling. It gets blurry after that... there was a flurry of movement... clothes were flying off the racks and into our stroller... all control was lost. And yet, we managed to hold back a little and not buy one of everything they had. We shopped around a bit more, but spent most of our money (okay... not really OUR money - thanks mom!) in Carters. Have I mentioned that I love that store?
So we set out again... this time for home. Can we just say that we've had better drives? Isaac started to cry just as we left the mall. We drove to target (less than 5 mins away) and I fed him in the parking lot there. Then we set out again, and we had to stop just before the bridge to feed him again. The line to cross back into Canada was CRAZY. Isaac was good for most of it. As the border came into sight, he woke up and started freaking out again. I sat in the back and tried my best to passify him until we were through. I think the guy at the gate felt sorry for us... we had to shout to be heard over Isaac's screaming. We pulled into the currency exchange lot, and I fed him again.
Okay, lets cut to the chase, I fed him 3 more times before arriving home. We had left the mall at 4:15 and only got home at 9:30. It was great. Anyone want to come on a roadtrip with us next time?
It was well worth it in the end though. We SAVED more than we spent. Again, outstanding. Why can't we have sales like that here? Maybe we would actually buy stuff here then.

Isaac wanted to drive.... this is legal right?





This is the Carters store... everything you can see was on some sort of a sale. Truly amazing.