Country Girl in the City #HittheRoadCountry

We made it to Ventura/Santa Barbara!

In case you haven’t been following along, thanks to County Inns & Suites, we are on our first ever family vacation.

We arrived in Ventura late yesterday afternoon via the Amtrak Surfliner train.  That was an experience!  It was very crowded and we didn’t even have seats until the 2nd stop.  But the ticket guy/conductor (what ever do you call them?) scoped us out some spots.  He even had to kick a group of kids out when they got to the seats before us.  That was really nice and I appreciated it. Standing in the stairway with 3 crazy monkeys on a moving train wasn’t really my ideal traveling situation.  But once we were seated, the boys did really well.  Just a few “I want to go home’s” from Bobo towards the end.  But he’s a homebody anyways.

We actually had to walk from the train station to the hotel.  I made the mistake of forgetting the directions.  oops!  So we weren’t entirely sure where we were going.  Imagine, 5 people (3 toddlers), and 3 suitcases just wandering aimlessly around a strange new city.  And my poor husband hadn’t slept yet after coming off an overnight shift.  Fun times!

After asking a couple homeless guys if we were close…we arrived.  The staff at Country Inns & Suites were very welcoming and we were checked into our room in no time at all.  The hotel is situated right on the freeway.  But inside it was very pretty and inviting.  The boys were happy to have complementary cookies after their long walk.

This room is HUGE.  The boys are having a great time running through like crazy people.  I feel sorry for the people below us!  I have pictures, and I need to upload them.  I’ll be back later to tell you all about it.  But right now, I smell complementary HOT breakfast downstairs and I want to eat!