road trip day one

I'll use this throwback Thursday to send us back to the very first day of the year, when we took off on our two week road trip to Arizona!  We finished packing the van with frigid temperatures and took off for Raleigh (most of our driving days were around 5 hours of driving which made it really easy).

On our way there, Aiden was laughing about funny street and town names and it inspired him to write  short stories with titles and characters based on signs he saw along the way.  The first story was called Squirrel Level Critical.  A story about squirrels taking over and you can't go out smelling like nuts ;)

Our first stop was Raleigh where we planned to meet up with our old friends and morning carpool buddies from our neighborhood that moved there a year or so ago.  We miss them!  We visited a great restaurant called Cowfish.