29-Sep-2004

So, it turns out that our meticulously fine-tuned plan of “driving
after bedtime so the babies sleep all the way” was not the best plan we
had ever formulated.  The thing about babies is that when one
wakes up crying, it wakes the other up, and then that baby cries. 
Then you have two crying (and soon, screaming, heaving, sobbing) babies
in a dark and very cramped van.  Turns out it’s easier to pacify
babies either a) not in a van, or b) not in the dark.  Tomorrow we
drive by daylight.