Vacations are wonderful.
I love everything about vacations. I love the planning, the anticipation, the packing, traveling to the destination, the new experiences, all of it. There is only one part of vacation I could do without - getting home.
This summer our family vacation took us to South Dakota. More specifically our destination included the Badlands, the Black Hills and Whispering Winds Cottages (more on them in a later post). As was the case last year when we trekked all the way to California, we decided to make the trip via automobile. And as I watch Chevy Chase in Vacation as I write this, we even made the trip in a new vehicle - the Volkswagen Jetta Sportswagen-ster.
We've decided we love to travel by car. We Wikipedia (that's a verb, right?) every town (no matter how large or small) to learn interesting tidbits along the way (more on that in another post). We have all kinds of things for the kids to do in the car - traveling bingo, books, iPod touches, iPads, DVD's, Nintendo DSs and more. We like to make the traveling time a major part of the vacation.
But it's the dreaded trip home that always looms large. So this year we decided to plan something fun for at least a portion of the long ride home.
Our family is a big fan of the lip dub. From the amazing Shorewood High School version of the Hall and Oats classic You Make My Dreams Come True to the Harvard baseball team's version of Call Me Maybe, we enjoy them all.
So we decided to make one of our own.
I posed a challenge to my daughters to decide the appropriate song for us to cover. Claire, who is 6-years-old, proposed we should attempt Katy Perry's Firework because we would be doing it around the 4th of July.
We agreed, and this is the final product.
While it isn't the best lip dub on the web, it was a lot of fun and allowed us to extend our vacation to the long Interstate 90/29 ride home. We hope you enjoy the video and please feel free to share and leave us a comment and a link to your own family lip dub.
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