the hof

Conversation with K before our trip:

K: Can we stop at an IHOP during the car trip?

Me: Ooh I love IHOP. Chocolate chip pancakes...we'll see.

K: What does IHOP stand for anyway?

Me: International House of Pancakes

K: Well that's better than IHOF!

Me: What's IHOF?

K: International House of FAILURE!

Me: (laughs hysterically)

K: Or if you were really mad at someone and wanted to fight, you could say "Wanna go to IHOP??? International House of PAIN!!!"

Me: K you are funny.

can i hitch a ride to the circus?

E slept through the first few hours of our loooong car trip. When she woke up she was concerned that she had "missed something."

I informed her that aside from the circus that we passed and the hitchhiker that we picked up, she didn't miss a thing. I got a "Yeah right Mom!"

What? I amuse myself (if no one else).

A little while later, she and K started cracking up hysterically and pointing out the window. In a big field, stood a huge striped circus tent! Seriously it looked like something out of a cartoon. What are the odds? So we joked that all we needed to see next was a hitchhiker.

I kid you not, as we pulled out of a rest stop, a gentleman was in fact trying to hitch a ride from passing cars. Well after the renewed laughter died down, a new travel game was born.

So for the rest of the trip we would name odd things to see if they would show up. The best one that actually did was a chair on top of a car (believe it or not).

So there, next time "cows" or "count the out of state plates" gets old, try "Random Item Travel Bingo."