This is what four boys look like about to hit the road for a six+ hour trip:

Pretty enthusiastic, right?

Should I mention that there were two additional children in-utero as well?

Quite relaxing, those seven hours, believe it or not... just about until LA traffic... and who can blame them, really? It's nothing to be excited about and/ or enthusiastic about.

But, they hung in there, and within minutes at arriving at my mom's, these hooligans were swimming like fish in the pool.

Oh, and there's cable television here. And ice cream.

Have I mentioned that one of my best friends and I are on vacation?