Me and my son arrived here in the U.S. in the fall of 2010. After only a few months of being here, we made our first major road trip or first family vacation in mid 2011. June, to be exact. I never thought we would actually do it, but my husband was so eager to go and wasn’t thinking about himself when he decided, he was thinking of me. Why? We are going to attend my Alma Mater’s Grand Alumni Reunion in Springfield, Virginia. It was the actual purpose of the trip but I still considered it a family vacation because we got to be together and saw places.

Today I will start by talking about the trip from the very beginning. It happened in 2011 alright, but I just realized that I haven’t talked about it here yet. And browsing the photos in our personal computer today made me nostalgic.

Springfield, Virginia is an 8-hour drive from our city. When the husband told me about it, I was like, wow! But it was my first major road trip so I was more than excited.

On the day of the road trip itself, we left as early as 5 o’clock in the morning so we will get to the hotel in Springfield just in time for us to check in. Check in time is at 3 o’clock and we arrived there at past 1 o’clock which was just perfect. Hubby had time to relax a bit from driving 8-hour straight and we got to hung out at the hotel lobby.

It was just after sunrise when we reached the Virginia Welcome Center. I wanted to have a photo at the signage as remembrance so there you go. The main reason for the stop was the photo and not because of nature calling. Har.

We stayed there for a while and looked around. There’s my boys checking the map. Guess what they were pointing at? To where we were headed, that is.

Our little tourist after checking all the free goodies. It looked like he didn’t find anything that caught his fancy.

We hit the road again after a few minutes. More about the trip next time.