It was noon when the finally arrived at Mount Rushmore. Sandy and Kristen where making sandwiches on a picnic table beside the jeep with Seth when a bright blue van pulled up beside them. Two kids bounded out calling that they were going exploring to two tried looking parents. The mom opened up the sliding door of the van and smiled at t Ryan who was trying to clean up the mess of books, music and water bottles that was left in the jeep. "6 hours in a car with those two, I didn't think we'd make it," she joked in a pleasant southern accent.
"Yeah," he smiled back at her, "We drove up from California."
"That's a long haul," She commented, "Did you do the whole movie in the back seat routine?"
"Na…we're big on the sing-a-long."
"Ouch," she fake winced, "Long trip and car karaoke, that's a rough double bill." Nodding her head towards the Sandy and Kristen she asked, "So did you come up with family?"
"Yeah." Ryan answered, "That's my mom and dad and my brother." The Cohen's looked up at each other in silence; Ryan had introduced them as family!
"You look like your mom."
Sandy and Kristen grinned into their sandwiches as Ryan answered, "You're not the first person to have said that."
"I thought it was a tight fit with my two boys and their not yet teenagers, I can imagine your jeep must have been pretty tight."
"We're a close family."
"So a good trip all round for you and you haven't even seen the monument."
Ryan closed the jeep door, "I'd have to say the best family trip ever."
Silently the Cohen gave each other high fives.
Best family trip.
Ever.