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Surviving a Road Trip With a Toddler: How We Did It! A Family Travel Vlog
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Feb 28, 2025
If you're planning a road trip with a toddler, this video will help! We packed up our 4 year old toddler for a 9 hour road trip to Tennessee and I'm sharing how we did it! It was such a smooth trip all the way there, and we even stopped at a beautiful park to let the little one get some energy out!
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foreign
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[Music]
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but that is because today is road trip
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day we are getting ready to lay down
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just for a few hours after we put the
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little one to bed and then we're gonna
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get up and get on the road luckily I was
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able to take like a very brief nap today
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and then my husband he slept like a
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majority of yesterday and then he slept
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like pride of today so we have
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everything packed up in the car and Noah
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my four-year-old son is currently taking
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a bubble bath so that he can get calm
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clean and relaxed and I'm gonna lay him
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down to sleep so my husband and I are
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gonna go back to sleep for about four
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hours we're gonna try and aim for that
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amount of time and then we're gonna get
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up and we're gonna get on the road
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pretty much gonna try and drive it out
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while Noah is still asleep so that is
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what we're gonna try and do problems
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that I am gonna have to wake Noah up
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before we leave to use the the restroom
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but I've done it before sometimes I do
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that and then he pretty much goes right
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back to sleep I'm gonna show you guys
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what our little setup in the car looks
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like how we packed up the car I showed
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you guys in my last video the activities
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that we were taking the snacks some
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healthy options a few fun little items
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that we have for him so basically I am
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going to be vlogging our entire Journey
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for a road trip it's going to be a nine
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hour road trip with our toddler so that
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if you two are planning some type of
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road trip or even on the airplane or if
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you're just looking for travel tips for
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everyday traveling with a little one
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then this video will be helpful for that
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I'm gonna go get the little one cleaned
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up and finish his bath get him down in
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bed so that he can go to sleep and then
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I assume I'm going to lay down for a
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little while so we're gonna see how we
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do and I'm gonna take you guys along the
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journey with me it's pretty dark in here
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but we are getting ready to go now so in
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the front seat we don't have anything
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I'm just gonna have my a little throw
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blankets up here and a little travel
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pillow and that's it here's our setup in
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the back seat this is Noah's diaper bag
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if we make any stops this is his bag
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that we can just grab and take with us
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and then this is our little activity
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basket and I have it like looped through
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with the seat belt and the seat belt is
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kind of like squeezing everything I
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gotta hurry and close this door before
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the mosquitoes get me but yeah this is a
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setup nothing here on the floor at the
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moment that bag right there has like all
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of our sanitizing things in the back is
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all of our luggage back here this is the
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other side of the car right here on the
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floor is where I'm gonna put like all of
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our old stuff like the cooler bag of
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sugar right there and then this here is
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like all of our snacks that we had there
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is like the little tablet thingy on the
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back seat this was the best way that I
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can do it all right so we made it in the
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car and we actually slept a little later
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than we were supposed to so we didn't
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get out of the house until five in the
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morning so we're gonna see how long it
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takes to get us we're going to see how
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it goes and as you can see the little
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guy is up back there he is wide awake
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back there he was supposed to be asleep
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so well there's that but hopefully it's
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not too many
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um my cars on the road but I don't know
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maybe everybody else has the same ideas
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as we shall see
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[Music]
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foreign
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[Music]
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so I'm trying to like stay quiet but he
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went to sleep about 46 minutes into the
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drive
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is now entering through Ohio so so far
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things are going good
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[Music]
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we are making our first rest stop so we
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actually been driving for quite some
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time about maybe six and a half seven
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hours I think we still have two more
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hours to go and Noah has slept pretty
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much the whole way but I'm gonna stop
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and see if he needs to use the restroom
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um while we like fill up and get some
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more gas we really don't have too much
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butter to go it's been a pretty smooth
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trip like I said Noah has slept pretty
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much the entire time so we'll see how he
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does like the final two hours because I
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gotta get him out of the car and take
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him to the restroom
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what do you have there
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what
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off of PAW Patrols yeah
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it has toys yeah we're gonna get back on
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the road now I think we have like two
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hours left and until we retread it today
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we just took a little potty break at
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McDonald's try to stay as clean as we
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could we used the little I think
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disposable potty seat covers so if you
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are traveling with a little one make
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sure you practice those like a pack of
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50 of them is what we packed we also
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have like his emergency travel potty but
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that's just like for emergencies we have
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that in the trunk
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but now
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we got some gas and we're gonna go ahead
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and drive out this final two hours we
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haven't stopped for any food yet and I
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don't think we've needed to we have a
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ton of snacks in the back so far
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everything has been going just fine
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[Music]
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thank you
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so while we were driving through
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Somerset Kentucky we found the cutest
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little Fisher fun park that had
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restrooms a play area for the little
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ones a splash pad and it was so perfect
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and just what we needed and my last
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travel tip video I mentioned how you
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could just stop at a park and let your
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little ones run around and get some
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energy out and I didn't know we were
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gonna find this one but we just so
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happened to be driving past it and so
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that worked out so perfect for us it
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also had a storybook Trail which was the
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cutest thing ever maple love her name
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her knee was still a whisper her parents
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planted a tiny Tree in her honor and
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even though Flavia Millie Jane Lena
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Lillian contestants were all good names
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mapu was the perfect fit the you see a
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tiny tree where you are at
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where
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they're big
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so that was a really cool little stop to
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kind of just like park off to the side
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and let your children like stretch your
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legs or run around there was a lot of
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like little sightseeing things and I had
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a pretty good time and got some energy
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y'all you never know maybe you'll fall
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back to sleep but I am glad that we
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found that and I was able to get out
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that also like killed a little bit of
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time since we were gonna make it a
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little bit earlier than the time that we
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will be checking into our Resort so
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maybe this put us back on track to be
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able to check in when we get there I
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don't know
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thank you
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we finally made it to our Resort we
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didn't consider the time difference so
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while we thought we were like kind of
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making it to where we would get here
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right at check-in time we still ended up
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two hours off but luckily our room is
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ready so my husband is inside just
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getting us all checked in after we left
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the little park place no one got in the
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car he stayed up for another I don't
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know maybe 30 minutes 40 minutes or so
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then he just
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and then he just went back to sleep
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again for the rest of the ride the
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resort is beautiful so we're gonna get
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checked in and then after we get checked
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in I will give you guys like a little
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tour of the room and then maybe maybe we
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are going to stop by Bucky's I don't
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know I've heard a lot of good things
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about Bucky's maybe we'll try it out
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just depends on how my husband is
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feeling poor thing has driven us nine
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hours all by himself with no coffee he
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had options to stop for coffee but he
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didn't even stop for coffee which is
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very surprising to me so we might just
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chill out in the room so we're gonna get
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checked in and then I'll give you guys a
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little tour of the room that we're
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staying in
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it has like a balcony that's right here
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off of like the living room area
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television with
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a gas fireplace
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sofa and chairs dining table kitchen
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area with washer and dryer somewhere
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right here
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and then you come up here towards the
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entrance
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closet with all the things master
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bedroom with television another little
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balcony right there to closet this is
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the bathroom
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we shower and talk
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area
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I just love the closet it is the second
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bedroom I don't know how we're gonna do
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like our sleep situation yet because
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um
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like these two beds are kind of small so
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it's not like my husband and I could
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sleep in one and then militancy for the
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other we would like have to put him in
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here by himself which I'm not fond of
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because of the door so who knows if we
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are going to be using this one at all at
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least there are some locks here on there
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another bathroom
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so this is the resort that we're going
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to be seeing everything looks really
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good and I feel like I look ridiculous
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it has been a very long travel day but
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everything in the room is really clean
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and we're tired I don't know we have
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planned next there are a ton of things
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like they gave us a map with like
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different trails that we can do
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activities this resort we're staying at
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is the Wyndham resort in Fairfield Glade
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Tennessee which has like indoor pool
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outdoor pool golf mini golf Trails
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nature trails and Parks um it's like a
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large playground right outside of the
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room I also have a little shopping mall
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right inside of the resort some things
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that we can explore then aside from that
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Ross are going to like try and visit the
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Smoky Mountains visit Falls Creek ozone
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Falls different things like that so we
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have a pack week ahead of us some fun
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some relaxation and I'm gonna continue
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[Music]
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thank you
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