It's a Wilson World!: Holiday Travels to Virginia

We decided that this year we wanted to travel to see family during the holidays. After all, alot of people have come to us lately - for the wedding shower, the wedding and the baby shower. We thought it was time we paid back some of those visits. This year we found out that our Great Aunt & Uncle from Virginia Beach (Aunt Lue & Uncle Rock) were going to be just outside DC spending the holidays with their kids and grandkids at Cousin Kevin's house... We really wanted to see them so it made it that much more fitting to make the drive. Brian's Aunt Vivian & Cousin MaryBeth live only about 40 minutes from my family so we thought we could visit the lot of them in one shot. The drive normally takes about 4 hours... But the day after Xmas took us EIGHT hours!!! It was HELL. We learned that traveling with baby means you need to plan to leave an hour sooner than you wanted AND build an hour in for stops on the way (to play it safe). Once we got to our destination it was great to visit with the family. The 1st night we stayed in a hotel - Kayla loved this! She got to sleep in her brand new "travel bed"... its great b/c it folds up into a brief case like contraption! Perfect for traveling!!! The 2nd night we stayed with Brian's family... Kayla LOVED meeting all this new family and playing with her cousins!