Deception Pass

Earlier this week, Sam and I came up with the brilliant plan to escape the heat by going to Deception Pass State Park on Whidbey Island. It's always cooler up there and with the expected highs to be in the 100's, we figured we would make the trip today. However, the heat we've had seemed to have done something to our minds. We somehow thought this would be a smooth trip with no flaws and everyone would have a great time. Here's what really happened...

First, we decided to head up after Logan's nap since it is hotter in the late afternoon anyway. Well, Logan's nap didn't last too long. It seems that in the fit he threw before going down, he took off his diaper, or something to that effect because he woke up a short while later screaming his head off for reasons I most likely don't need to explain. (Let's just say it wasn't pretty.) So Logan was NOT well rested like we had hoped. We packed up the things we would need, I fed Olivia, put her in her carseat where she started to scream for a short while (she does not like her carseat), and then got Logan into the car where he thought it would be funny to scream as loud as Olivia. Let the drive begin...

Olivia fell asleep soon after we left, thankfully, however Logan decided it would be fun to scream off and on the entire drive up (an hour and a half). Just before we arrived, Olivia woke up screaming yet again. This girl does not cry, she just screams. Of course it was time for her to eat and we were still a good 10 minutes away from where we could park. We eventually got there, Sam took Logan out of the car and walked to the beach while I stayed behind to feed Olivia. We decided that it was a good time to eat dinner, so we unpacked our things and had our picnic on the beach.
It didn't last long before Olivia decided she was still hungry. So, as I went off to feed her again, Sam and Logan finished dinner and packed things back up. We had planned to stay longer, but it was late in the day and we had to get the kids home and to bed at a reasonable hour. Of course there was the famous tantrum thrown by Logan and Olivia's screaming as we tried to get them back in their carseats. We had people watching and giving us those sympathetic looks. I just had to laugh. I never imagined myself in this type of situation, but now I know it's going to happen and will happen more often than I'd like, I'm sure.

We made it home and we all survived. The whole point of the trip though was to avoid the heat. Although it didn't go quite as planned, we did manage to stay cool for a couple of hours, even if most of the time was spent in the car driving to and from our destination. On the way home though, Sam and I decided that we will not be attempting any trips like this again in the near future. We decided that we should wait for the kids to be a little older.