Ree Drummond and Family Head on a Road Trip for Christmas

We left on a Christmas getaway Saturday morning. And by Saturday morning, I actually indicate Friday night time, all-around the time university youngsters generally are having house. Allow me walk you by my day one diary, a.k.a. The Highway Excursion!

2:20 am: I wake up stuffed with dread. I listen to Ladd opening and closing our entrance doorway, and I know specifically what he’s accomplishing: Loading up the auto so we can head out on our Christmas highway trip. I think about going back to rest since I was dreaming about Kevin Costner, but make a decision it really is futile simply because a) I most likely would not be equipped to resume the desire even if I fell back again asleep, and b) If I do not go forward and get up, Ladd’s going to wake me up in about 5 minutes in any case.

2:35 am: Now dressed in cozy auto clothing, I fill an further massive jug with cold brew, milk, and Stevia, and I fill a little insulated cooler with cans of Dr Pepper and Diet plan Dr Pepper, simply because I know we are hours absent from stopping. We are Drummonds, after all, and we are tricky core road-trippers.

2:43 am: We are on our gravel road, leaving the ranch. And by “we,” I indicate Ladd, me, Todd, and Todd’s good pal, John Reed. John is going with us for the very first several times, and he put in the evening since we’d be leaving so early. Todd and John stayed up all night in anticipation of remaining in the motor vehicle for 9 hrs (they preferred to slumber for a whole lot of the trip), so prior to we even get to the freeway, they’re audio asleep in the back.

2:55 am: I am sound asleep in the entrance, curled up with a king-sizing pillow I introduced from our mattress. The similar pillow, by the way, on which my head laid as I was dreaming of Kevin Costner a mere hour just before. Ladd, my correct appreciate in spite of my crush on Kevin, starts a new Tom Clancy audio guide.

6:44 am: I am awakened by the brilliant lights of a fuel station. Ladd has stopped to top off the gasoline and run inside of, so I determine to head in and get a very hot coffee to go with the chilly brew I have not had a sip of nonetheless. I can scarcely stroll when I get out of the auto since I have been curled up in an unnatural position, so someplace in rural Kansas there is certainly a gas station with security footage of a female with purple hair who is going for walks like a 97-year-aged male.

8:36 am: I have consumed both equally my jug of cold brew and my significant scorching espresso and I have also screened/edited an episode of my display on my laptop and concluded the NYT Crossword. My glasses are grimy, so I thoroughly clean them with my beloved glasses cleaning cloth I acquired as a present previous 7 days!! I like it!

9:49 am: We stopped an hour or so previously, so I am stretching my legs, feet, knees, hips, and toes. Highway trips are a stiff proposition for a gal like me! 😂

11:39 am: We are fewer than 30 minutes from our spot in Colorado and it isn’t really even midday nonetheless. 😂 This is what it really is like to choose a travel with Ladd Drummond. There is no messing close to, most of us sleep 50 % the time, and before we know it, we have taken a 9 hour highway excursion. Hi, Todd and John! Are we there but?

11:52 am: The mountains. I could cry. We are practically there! This fall has been so chaotic. I would not say tense, but just…a whole lot. Soccer, filming, shooting, family points, do the job factors, ranch things. I would by no means complain, and I adore becoming home on the ranch. But mama requires a little break!! Haha.

12:19 pm: We are in this article! And we have previously unloaded all our luggage and things and…well, we obtained listed here as well early and our place isn’t really all set yet. Hahaha. How ironic is that? But truthfully, it takes place all the time! We get in this sort of a hurry to get to exactly where we’re heading that exactly where we’re going just isn’t even completely ready for us. But which is ok! We loved a pleasant tiny brisk stroll about town!

12:50 pm: I really like Colorado family vacation pet dogs! And Ladd of class enjoys it when I make him stop in his tracks so I can fulfill and interact with every and just about every 1 of them. This is GASTON, and I really feel we have a lifelong relationship now. What a cutie. And appear at his booties!

1:18 pm: All right, our area continue to just isn’t prepared. 🤪 Remind me once again why we remaining the ranch at 2:43 am?!? I am laughing so challenging. Ladd and I sit in the lobby, wherever he orders French fries and a coke. He then implies I purchase a cocktail, to which I responded, “Ok!!!!” It turned out to be pretty yummy.

That’s all the news which is match to print right now. To repeat: I am so fired up to have this time in the mountains with Ladd and the kids, who will bit by bit trickle in this week a person by a person (and at times two by two.) This is the first Xmas we will be devoid of Chuck, and due to the fact he has generally been this sort of a huge component of our vacations, it feels like a superior time to transform things up and change the landscapes a minor bit.

I am going to maintain you posted on our Griswold—I signify Drummond—Xmas Family vacation!

Off to lookup for much more holiday vacation canines,

Ree Ree