Our 2 1/2 hour trip that took 4 1/2!

Friday afternoon, Graham came home around 3:00, Ellie was picked up alittle before then and the car was packed and ready to go. My plan was to leave for Gatlinburg around 3:30, ofcourse Graham waited till then to even start packing! We FINALLY got on the road at 4:00. As we were stopping to get gas I was trying to get Barney set up on the little DVD player that we have been using of mom's. WELL, that thing has had it, Cale used it, Miranda and Ali used it and we have used it on 2 trips this summer. Everytime I would sit it down it would go off, I told Graham to just stop at Walmart in the valley so I could go get her a new DVD player (something we knew we would be doing sooner than later). Well ofcourse Graham, who has to be incontrol of EVERYTHING, said let's just see how it goes, we can always stop at a Walmart later and get one. FIne, FINE I know how it is going to go, she is going to get bored with the books, colors, babies and other random things she has to play with and then she is going to scream...........and scream and scream. But whatever if you want to wait! We made it to Athens and ate and she was still doing OKAY, but as soon as we got back on the freeway she started, "BARNEY, BARNEY BARRRRRRRNNNNEEEEEYY!" After about 30 minutes of me trying to find SOMETHING to make her happy and nothing working Graham got off the freeway to find a Walmart. See if he had just listened to me to begin with we wouldn't have had to first of all, listen to her scream, and second, waste an hour buying her a new one (not to mention the extra $20 it was in Lenoir City than it was in LV). Finally we got Barney in, and hit the road again. Addie was a perfect angel the rest of the way!
So needless to say Addie got a dvd player for her birthday, those blame things are expensive! We are going to get her one more small thing but yeah thats what she gets, good thing she won't realize it this year :)
Anyways, that's how our trip took 2 extra hours. Because Graham won't listen to his smart wife :)