Friday--the road trip begins...T-9 hours

Our first road trip with Chloë actually began for me at 11am on Friday, a full 9 hours before we were due to leave, so that I could pack and make sure I had everything we needed. After running around all day making sure all the bags and 'baby things' were in order, we got ready to feed Chloë her last feeding of the day at around 6:45pm. By 7:45pm we were ready to leave--we packed up the car, and my fears about everything not fitting ALMOST came true. Between her moses basket, and the stroller, and our bags, you could barely see out of the rearview mirror. We hit the road at 8pm and by 8:10pm Chloë was sound asleep. She slept the whole car ride, and only woke up once we brought her into the hotel room at 1am. At that point she got out of her schedule and wanted to be fed.

As Josh paced around the room eager to go out so we could meet everyone at the bar--I nursed Chloë until she was back asleep. Elery, our wonderful baby nurse, stayed with Chloë while Josh and I went to meet everyone out. By the time we arrived at the bar, everyone was already past drunk and close to calling it a night. It was still nice to see everyone before the wedding the next day.

Once we got back to the hotel at around 2:30am, Chloë was awake--apparently some late night partiers had made too much noise around the halls and woken her up. She managed to drift back to sleep by 2:45am, and slept until 6:30am. This gave me a total of 3 and half hours of sleep...

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