First Vacation!

I started planning the girls' first trip to Michigan well before they were born.  By well before I mean like last November, which with a twin pregnancy was far too early to be safely planning anything, but I'm an optimist, so plan I did.  We originally thought we would take the trip to coincide with my cousin's graduation party because most of my mom's side of the family would be in town that weekend, and we could also see my dad's parents and at least one aunt on his side.  Wei-Yand's parents decided to visit that weekend, so the girls and I took the ferry across Lake Michigan early Monday morning.  We stayed at my parents' house until Thursday, then we drove up North to visit our extended family.  That weekend was another cousin's baby shower, so while we didn't get to see as many people, the girls still met a lot of the family.

We took the 6 am ferry, which meant that we had to be at the terminal by 5:15.  I set my alarm for 3:45 to make sure that I had time to feed the girls and get the car loaded since some of the things that needed to be packed (noise machine, monitor, Rock and Play) were being used the night before.  We made it to the ferry with no problem.  The girls were a little confused as to why I was yanking them out of their beds in the middle of the night, but they fell asleep in the terminal as we waited to board the boat. 

Tannah

Harper

 
 One benefit of pushing the babytrain (a.k.a. double stroller) is that we got to board first because we had to use the elevator.  The ferry has wheelchair accessible seating, which also works for a place to park a stroller, so we set up camp.  The ferry takes 2.5 hours to get across the lake, and the girls slept for about the first 45 minutes.  Harper woke up and was hungry, and I was able to feed her before Tannah woke up.  The tricky part is that I put Harper in the Moby wrap and then fed Tannah around Harper.  It was a little interesting, but it works in a pinch.  I then loaded Tannah into the Moby as well so it was a little easier for me to get up and walk around, which put the girls right back to sleep.

On the boat

The boat was pretty empty, but there was this adorable little boy who was fascinated with the girls.  He kept asking me how I got two babies.  Apparently he didn't think my response of, "I just got lucky" was sufficient, which I thought was amusing.  The girls were so good on the boat, the trip went really well.

Unfortunately, my dad started his new job the day we arrived in town, so we didn't get to see a whole lot of him.  He met us at the ferry to say hi to me and the girls before he had to head out of town for the week.

Grandpa and Tannah

 

Grandpa and Harper

My mom had the girls' room all set up when we arrived at my parents' house.

The girls slept really well that night!