Last night we stopped in Santa Rosa, New Mexico for the night. We got there very late, so we decided to just get one room, skip going to a pool and I really didn’t even want to unload anything from the van so that we could get to sleep more quickly and so that we could get out of there more quickly this morning. However, not unloading anything wasn’t very realistic. We realized that we NEEDED to unload the bottles and formula. Then we remembered that we needed diapers and wipes. Then we realized that we needed to unload some sleeping bags for the kids that weren’t going to fit on the two beds and the hide-a-bed in the hotel room. We eventually finished getting stuff from the van and got some sleep.
This morning, I did NOT want to send the kids to pick their own breakfasts. We had decided yesterday that we were going to go to the Waffle House in Albuquerque for breakfast. So Kyle went to the room in the hotel where they were serving breakfast, and got some donuts, hard boiled eggs and apples and bananas so the kids would have a snack for the road to hold them over till we got to Albuquerque.
The Waffle House was an interesting restaurant. We had to split our family into two tables, and our waitress totally forgot to add our totals together when it was time for us to pay. I think most of the kids got a waffle, and some of them got hashed browns too. When everyone had eaten their fill, we packed up the rest of the food and went to see the temple.
Then we were back on the road.